Retract Allegations Over Tinubu’s School In 7 Days Or Face Prosecution, APC Chieftain Threatens Ex-Don

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Oluremi Omowaiye, has given a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse seven days to retract his current false allegations in opposition to President Bola Tinubu or face severe authorized prosecution.

Pearse, a former Chicago State University lecturer throughout an interview on News Central mentioned  Tinubu by no means attended the establishment.

But Omowaiye, in an announcement reacting to Pearse’s current tv interview, declared that he should be tried in courtroom to function a deterrent to others spreading falsehoods in opposition to the nation’s highest workplace holder.

Speaking not in his capability as a authorities appointee, however as a “citizen, stakeholder, and taxpayer,” the Executive Director (Project Implementations) on the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) described Pearse’s remarks as “unbearable” and an try to use the gullibility of Nigerian youths to blackmail the president.

“This concern is changing into insufferable. How might somebody like Adetokunbo Pearse name the President unprintable names?

“If Adetokunbo will not be tried and doubtless jailed, individuals won’t cease misbehaving. Nigeria will not be a banana republic; this can be a nation with legal guidelines.

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Omowaiye revealed that the viral unfold of the interview had private repercussions, noting that his teenage daughter contacted him after seeing the claims on-line to ask whether or not it was true that Nigeria’s President didn’t attend college and solid his certificates.

“He has tainted the name of the President, we are giving him seven days to apologize in at least seven national newspapers and other major broadcast outfits. Failure to apologize within seven days, he will be taken to court to serve as a deterrent for others,”the APC chieftain mentioned.

Omowaiye emphasised that the controversy surrounding President Tinubu’s educational credentials has already been exhaustively litigated and settled by the best courts in each Nigeria and the United States.

He identified that through the authorized proceedings initiated by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar within the U.S., Chicago State University’s registrar, Caleb Westberg, testified beneath oath in October 2023 and offered official documentation confirming that Bola Ahmed Tinubu attended the establishment from August 1977 to June 1979, graduating on June 22, 1979, with a Bachelor of Science diploma in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting.

Omowaiye additionally mentioned the Supreme Court of Nigeria subsequently upheld these details whereas a cross-examination of public educational data immediately contradicted Pearse’s declare throughout his current look on News Central TV that he served because the “director of the programme” at CSU.

President Tinubu graduated from CSU in June 1979, whereas Pearse acknowledged he lectured on the establishment between 1985 and 1990 serving because the Director of the programme Tinubu studied —arriving six years after Tinubu had already left.

“Dr Pearse’s academic qualifications—including a Bachelor’s degree in English from Bayero University, Kano, a Master’s from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in Contemporary African Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison—place his expertise strictly within English and the Humanities, rather than the College of Business Administration where Tinubu studied Accounting,” he mentioned

Dismissing Pearse as a “disgruntled” political actor making an attempt to make use of unsubstantiated claims to override verified institutional data, Omowaiye challenged opposition figures to raise the standard of political discourse forward of future elections.

“This is not about political party. If Adetokunbo and his cohorts wants to campaign, it must be an evidence-based campaign, not fake Bangladesh Statistics,”he added.