Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, has reacted to the Chicago State University saga involving President Tinubu.
Tuggar while appearing on Channels TV Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, said Tinubu’s government has no time to waste on ‘frivolous issues’.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s claim of having attended and obtained a certificate from Chicago State University (CSU) in the United States of America, Tuggar stated that the certificate saga has had no effect on the recent international engagements of President Tinubu, adding that the issue ‘is a distraction’.
“Nobody is wasting time about certificate qualification for somebody who has been a governor of a state, served two terms, and has been on the national stage as a politician.
“You remember that (former) President Buhari had to go through the same thing, where people were actually questioning whether he went to secondary school or not. Someone who had classmates was the captain; he was a head boy.
“The foreign leaders with whom we’ve been engaging and the international organizations clearly are disinterested in wasting time on such.
The Minister advised Nigerians to be focused on the economic challenges in the country presently and not on the certificate.
“The economic challenges we are facing – we shouldn’t be wasting time about whether some certificate, whether there is a T missing or an I hasn’t been dotted. That shouldn’t be our primary focus at the moment,” he said.
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had taken President Bola Tinubu to a US court, requesting that his academic records be made available by Chicago State University (CSU) in an application to the US District Court in Northern Illinois.
On Monday, the documents were released to Atiku’s legal team by the university.
