CSU: Tinubu breaks silence on alleged certificate forgery

President Bola Tinubu has said that the alleged discrepancies in his academic credentials were the handwork of his political opponent, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25 presidential election.

Tinubu said the president plotted the allegations against him because of his and the PDP's failure to secure credible evidence to justify his claim that he (Tinubu) was not qualified to take part in the 2023 presidential election, The Nation reported.

In his brief against the appeal of Atiku and the PDP before the Supreme Court, President Tinubu told the apex court to throw out the appeal and uphold the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) as well as the election.

President Tinubu, in his defence, said he was validly elected after he polled the highest number of votes in the 2023 election.

He added that he was validly returned as the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He noted that, by statistics, he was able to get 25 per cent of the total votes in the 29 states of the country.

He said Atiku and the PDP only managed to secure 25 percent of the total votes in 21 states of the federation, “as against the constitutional requirement of 24.7 states, which is the mathematical results of two-thirds of the 36 states of the federation and the FCT (making 37).”