Chicago Varsity: Another Tinubu’s classmate testifies in US court

The ongoing legal battle between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his Chicago State University academic records on Tuesday took a new twist as a self-acclaimed classmate of the president, Olajide Adeniji, swore to an oath that he knew him.

According to the report, Adeniji testified in a United States district court, claiming to know and contested against Tinubu as President of the Accounting Society Club at the Department of Business Admin/Accounting in the same alma mater.

This is coming two weeks after a public affairs analyst, Durojaiye Ogunsanya, who was featured on TVC’s popular breakfast show ‘This Morning,’ also claimed to be a coursemate to the Nigerian president.

Ogunsanya testified that they both graduated from the Department of Accounting and Business Administration in 1979 at the same university.

In the oath taken on September 23 at the Northern District of Illinois Court in Chicago, Adeniji swore to an affidavit that he was familiar with the same Tinubu who is the current president of Nigeria.

His affidavit read, “I, Olajide Adeniji, after having been first duly sworn upon oath, do hereby state that I am over 21 years of age, that I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein, and could competently testify thereto if called upon to do so: I attended Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois from 1977 to 1979 when I graduated with a degree in Business Administration/Accounting in 1979.

“I am familiar with Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is now the President of Nigeria. I was a student at Chicago State University from 1977 to 1979, and Bola Tinubu and I were in the same course of study.

“I also ran in a closely-contested race against and Bola Tinubu for the Leadership of Accounting Society Club of the Department of Business Administration/Accounting. I also recognise and know the person who I attended Chicago State University with, Bola A. Tinubu, is the same person who is now the President of Nigeria. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.”

Atiku had secured an application for CSU to make the president’s academic records available to his legal team.

Acting on the application, a magistrate, Jeffrey Gilbert, had ordered Tinubu’s alma mater to provide all relevant and non-privileged documents to the applicant within two days.