Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the first runner-up in the February 25 presidential poll, says it is impossible for Elnora Daniel and Niva Lubin to have signed Bola Tinubu’s 1979 Chicago State University (CSU) certificate given that they began working in the institution in 1998 and 1996, respectively.

As the battle for the release of Mr Tinubu’s CSU records rages, Mr Abubakar on Wednesday told the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois that he does not understand how Mr Tinubu’s certificate submitted to Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, bore the signatures of two CSU staff who joined the institution nearly two decades after the president graduated.

Mr Abubakar, the applicant for an order directing discovery of Mr Tinubu’s records, said there were glaring inconsistencies between the certificate Mr Tinubu tendered to INEC dated June 22, 1979, and the one CSU gave Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah in response to a previous subpoena, dated June 27, 1979.

“The June 22 diploma has a different font and seal and does not have the grammatical error in the June 27 diploma. Instead of three signatures, it has only two. It also purports to be signed by Dr. Daniel as President of CSU—who did not begin working at CSU until 1998.

“The second signature purports to be that of Dr Niva Lubin as Chair of the Board. But like Dr Daniel, Dr Lubin did not begin working at CSU until the late 1990s,” Angela Liu, counsel for Mr Abubakar, wrote to the court on Wednesday.

The former CSU board chair’s legal name is Niva Lubin-Johnson, which is how it is written on all her public records. How her name was spelt as Niva Lubin alone on the certificate purportedly issued to Mr Tinubu could not be understood, further fuelling the suspicions of forgery.

Peoples Gazette’s checks showed that Ms Lubin-Johnson joined the CSU board in 1996 and left after serving two terms in 2002.

Both women (Mses Daniel and Lubin) whose names appeared on Mr Tinubu’s diploma joined CSU long after Mr Tinubu graduated and long before CSU said the incumbent president and board chair usually signed the certificates at the time of request, Mr Abubakar’s lawyer noted.

“The June 22 diploma has indicia of forgery,” asserted Ms Liu. “Although it appears to be signed by three CSU officials, two of the signatures are illegible, and the third purports to be that of Dr. Elnora D. Daniel as President of CSU—even though she did not join CSU until 1998. ECF 5, Ex. F. It also contains a clear grammatical error. ECF 5, Ex. C.”

“Although intervenor submitted an affidavit to this Court from Westberg asserting that ‘all diplomas are signed by the current President/Board Chair’, ECF 21-1 at ¶ 4, both Dr Daniel and Dr Lubin had left CSU by, 2008 and 2001, respectively,” Ms Liu pointed out.

Mr Tinubu successfully begged Judge Nancy Maldonado to delay the release of his school records to his main challenger in the presidential polls as previously ordered by Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S. federal court, pleading severe and irreparable damage to his life, in a last-ditch effort to stop the order from being enforced.

Mr Abubakar wants to use the document at the Supreme Court of Nigeria in his quest to prove Mr Tinubu committed perjury and is therefore ineligible to serve as the nation’s president.

franchasofficia:
You think say Yoruba people that founded Oluwole and put the headquarters in Lagos are fools?

Furthermore, in 1979, Dr. Daniel was working as a teaching assistant at Columbia University, according to her biography and the resume she submitted when she applied to become the president of Chicago State in 1998.

Now 81, retired and living on the east coast, I’d love to know her reaction to the news that the President of Nigeria who is 71 himself claims she signed his diploma. The president of CSU in1979 was actually Dr. Benjamin H. Alexander, who died in 1997 and was the first African American to serve in that role at CSU.

In 1979, Dr. Lubin, now married and going by the name Lubin-Johnson, well she wasn’t even a doctor in 1979. She didn’t become a physician until 1984.

So how two signatures of people who were not working at CSU came to be on a document that the president of Nigeria is trying to sell as legit isn’t really a mystery. It is a lie. It is deceit. It is part of what is ruining many African nations and the world as a whole; corruption

franchasofficia:
You think say Yoruba people that founded Oluwole and put the headquarters in Lagos are fools?

iSense247:
I am Yoruba and I can categorically tell you that Tinubu doesn't represent us but his drug cartel members. Omoluabis are known for integrity and uprightness worldwide. You can't use a criminal to judge/generalize all of us. Criminals like Mr Tinubu can be found everywhere even in North Korea.

iSense247:
I am Yoruba and I can categorically tell you that Tinubu doesn't represent us but his drug cartel members. Omoluabis are known for integrity and uprightness worldwide. You can't use a criminal to judge/generalize all of us. Criminals like Mr Tinubu can be found everywhere even in North Korea.

franchasofficia:
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They said Tinubu is the political god in Yoruba land

STARGREEN:


I'm yet to read of something of excellent about Tinubu.

richie240:


Una go explain taya!.

Mr. Atiku, can you enter america first, biko, we want to check something!

franchasofficia:
They said Tinubu is the political god in Yoruba land

richie240:


"I be yoruba'' kee u dia.
You forgot to switch monikers, okwea?

All deez biaflets sef!
Pfttt!

iSense247:
Looto, yoruba ni mi tokantokan omo kaaro oojire sugbon Peter Obi ni choice mi. Yoruba l'agba

True omoluabis don't support fraud because of religion or tribalism.

franchasofficia:
HellAnus, IconicR, Seunmassages, MannaBBNgirls, Legendheroin, Mmnynd447 and co don't agree with you.



They said Tinubu is the political god in Yoruba land

iSense247:
I am Yoruba and I can categorically tell you that Tinubu doesn't represent us but his drug cartel members. Omoluabis are known for integrity and uprightness worldwide. You can't use a criminal to judge/generalize all of us. Criminals like Mr Tinubu can be found everywhere even in North Korea.

richie240:


Una go explain taya!.

Mr. Atiku, can you enter america first, biko, we want to check something!

richie240:
Tinubu’s certificate submitted to Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, bore the signatures of two CSU staff who joined the institution nearly two decades after the president graduated.

iSense247:
Looto, yoruba ni mi tokantokan omo kaaro oojire sugbon Peter Obi ni choice mi. Yoruba l'agba

True omoluabis don't support fraud because of religion or tribalism.

iSense247:
I am Yoruba and I can categorically tell you that Tinubu doesn't represent us but his drug cartel members. Omoluabis are known for integrity and uprightness worldwide. You can't use a criminal to judge/generalize all of us. Criminals like Mr Tinubu can be found everywhere even in North Korea.