How Keyamo Celebrated BBC Report That Cleared Tinubu Of Forgery

Festus Keyamo, SAN has celebrated a report by the BBC pointing to the claim that there is no evidence that President Bola Tinubu forged the Chicago State University, CSU certificate submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The BBC had in an investigative report claimed that there was no evidence of forgery against President Tinubu.

The BBC report was quickly lapped by Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aerospace development in acquitting his new position on Tinubu.

GWG.ng reports that Keyamo as an activist had in the past taken a different position and followed Chief Gani Fawehinmi in alleging improprieties against Tinubu when he was governor of Lagos State.

However, Keyamo who served as campaign spokesman of the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council has strongly rebuffed allegations of improprieties against Tinubu.

In the report by the BBC published on Wednesday on its website the broadcaster claimed that

There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country’s electoral commission was forged, the BBC’s Global Disinformation Team has found.

Allegations that President Tinubu’s certificates were faked went viral on social media following the release by Chicago State University (CSU) of his academic records last week.

We have looked at some of the most widely circulated claims.

The release of the president’s academic documents is the culmination of a judicial case filed in August by one of his main rivals in February’s presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Mr Abubakar was hoping to have the victor disqualified after accusing him of falsifying the CSU diploma of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration awarded in 1979 that he submitted to the electoral authority (Inec).

To obtain evidence for his case in Nigeria, Mr Abubakar approached a US court in August, requesting it to compel CSU to release Mr Tinubu’s academic records through a process called discovery, where the parties exchange information including documents ahead of a trial.

This is how Keyamo celebrated the BBC report clearing Tinubu of forgery and how Nigerians reacted to him.

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