President Tinubu Did Not Attend Government College — Alumnus

Bola Tinubu’s attendance at Government College Lagos (GCL) has prompted a response from Fola Adeniran-Ogunsanya, a pioneering student at the school and the son of the late Nigerian politician and lawyer Adeniran Ogunsanya (SAN), who said the President did not attend the school. 

Ogunsanya, who claimed to be in the school’s first set, stated that he never met President Tinubu during his four years there.

The discovery of Ogunsanya comes amid the debate surrounding President Tinubu’s academic records.

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, had requested Tinubu’s record from Chicago State University to appeal the presidential tribunal’s decision.

In an interview with Rifnote, Ogunsanya stated that President Tinubu cannot recall the names of persons he attended school with.

“It was last week that I read that he attended Government College, Lagos. I called a couple of my friends. 

“I said Government College ke!1970? That was what blew my mind. Government College was not established in 1970, it was established in 1974. I was part of the first set of Government College, Lagos.

“I’m sorry to say, the President was not in our set. For the next four years that I was there, I don’t think the President was ever there. 

“I would have met him, known him. I’m in the pioneer set of Government College, Eric Moore. So, if you want to know most of the people that attended Government College, I can blot out names.

“Can our President do that? Just asking. There was Solomon Onwukwe, the Shitta Bays, Semiu Ibrahim, I can go on and on.

“The government colleges were set up in 1974 and I would have gone to Igbobi College or St Gregory’s College, but my father was telling me when I was there that he could not start a school for Lagos indigenes and his son would go to a different college,” Ogunsanya said.

“How would that appear? When it was set up, I was one of the first set that attended the Government College, Lagos.

“There was Government College, Lagos, Government College, Epe, there was one in Ito Ikin, Government College, Badagry, Government College, Ikorodu. Government College, Ojo is the one that is LASU now. It used to be a government college then”, he stated further.

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