Tinubu’s varsity Chancellor appointment draws condemnation

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories Thursday, August 30th, 2012

“Appointing a man who forged his academic certificates as
Chancellor of a university will further debase the academic
integrity of the country’s universities.”

This is how the PDP South-West reacted to the appointment of
former Governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN) leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Chancellor of the
Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso.

PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Mr Kayode Babade, in a
statement issued in Ibadan urged all stakeholders, particularly
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to reject the
appointment.

“Courtesy of ACN Governors Rauf Aregbesola and Abiola
Ajimobi of Osun and Oyo States respectively, such a character
is now the one to preside over the Convocation ceremonies of
LAUTECH where certificates will be issued. This is insulting!

“It is on record that Tinubu forged certificate of Government
College, Ibadan and submitted same to the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 1999 as part of his
academic credentials.

“Tinubu also went further to claim in INEC FORM CF. 001 and
the affidavit sworn to at Ikeja High Court of Justice on December
29, 1998 that he did attend and obtained O’ Level certificate
from Government College, Ibadan.

“In the same INEC Form CF. 001, Tinubu lied that he was a
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the United States.

“Curiously however, in the INEC Form he filled in 2003, Tinubu
did not include these two academic claims. He simply wrote; ‘Not
Applicable’ on both his O’ Level and Post Graduate
qualifications, meaning that he (Tinubu) knew that he actually
lied about his attendance of Government College, Ibadan and
qualification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

“it will be suicidal to holders of academic certificates from Nigeria
tertiary institutions if we continue to debase our academic
integrity with appointments of people with questionable integrity
as heads of our universities.”

“The academic community must therefore rise in defence of
LAUTECH and protect its integrity from being debased on the
alter of politics of god-fatherism being practised in the ACN,”
Babade said.

African Examiner

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