Tinubu’s academic records: Chicago University blocks X account over backlash

 One of the well-known American universities, Chicago State University, has locked its X account, formerly known as Twitter, after receiving criticism from Nigerians regarding problems with the certificate issued to President Bola Tinubu.

The Chicago State University is a large, primarily black state university in Chicago, Illinois, that was established in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School. It was a cutting-edge college for instructors. Later, the institution was taken over by the Chicago Public Schools from the county, and it was renamed Chicago Teachers College.

Recently, the institution has caught the prying eyes of Nigerians in diaspora over controversy surrounding the certificate it issued to President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria which has been under question.

There are two diploma certificates purporting to have been issued to Mr Tinubu by CSU on June 22, 1979 and June 27, 1979.

The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had gone to court in United to compel the university to produce Tinubu’s academic records.

In response to the Application submitted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate for the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar, the university last week gave conditions to grant access to President Bola Tinubu’s credentials from the school.

The University had said until it was provided with concrete reasons on how granting access to Tinubu’s credentials was relevant to the elections, it was only then that it would grant what had been asked.

“The student records Abubakar seeks from the University via a documents subpoena (Doc.1-1) and the information Abubakar seeks the University to provide under a deposition subpoena (Doc. 1-2) concern Tinubu’s private educational records. But since Tinubu has intervened to oppose this discovery, the University defers to Tinubu on the privacy issues implicated by Abubakar’s Application.” the document stated.

It further said, “The University struggles to understand how – given that Tinubu did graduate from the University in 1979 – Tinubu’s grades and other student records from the 1970s.