Tinubu certificate saga has ‘worsened’ Nigeria’s reputation, according to Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, has remarked that President Bola Tinubu’s certificate issue has damaged the country’s ‘less than glorious image’ in the world.

Obi noted during a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday that the certificate issue has harmed ordinary Nigerians both inside and outside the country.

“To outsiders, the entire Chicago University matter, as well as Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s many other lingering identity, question marks have further harmed Nigeria’s less than stellar international image,” he says.

“Uninformed outsiders now see every Nigerian as a fraudster, certificate forger, and identity thief. The controversy is unnecessary, and the implicit global embarrassment could have been avoided.”

Recall that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had secured release of Tinubu’s education records from the CSU through a court subpoena against the disclosure by the President.

The released records, which came first on October 3, showed that Tinubu’s 1979 CSU certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was different from samples of the certificates the university issued to students that same year.

Atiku, on Thursday, October 5, 2023, addressed a world press conference on the certificate saga.