A civil society group, the Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, CFRPA, has reopened the issue on the genuineness or otherwise of the Chicago State University certificate used by President Bola Tinubu to get clearance for the 2023 general election.
The group, championing good governance in Nigeria, has formally written the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, demanding clarifications on the status of the degree certificate claimed to have been obtained and being paraded by President Tinubu.
In a letter to the INEC chairman, the group demanded expedited clarifications from the electoral body to ensure that sanity prevails in the polity ahead of the 2027 election.
Specifically, the group predicated its demand on the need for INEC to prevent contestants of doubtful background from taking part in the 2027 presidential poll, in order to prohibit such persons from having access to leadership positions at all levels in the country.
The letter dated June 19, 2026 and signed by the group’s Head of Legal Unit, Barrister Kalu Agu, was received at the Abuja INEC Headquarters same date.
Among others, the group alleged that while President Tinubu claimed to have attended Government College Lagos in 1960 and graduated in May 1970, the Government College Lagos was established in 1974.
It therefore held that the primary and secondary school certificates being paraded by President Tinubu and claimed to have been used to secure admission to Chicago State University may have been forged, hence, the need for clarifications by
