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 latest false allegations towards President Bola Tinubu or face critical 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 latest tv interview, declared that he should be tried in court docket to function a deterrent to others spreading falsehoods towards 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 challenge is changing into insufferable. How may somebody like Adetokunbo Pearse name the President unprintable names?

“If Adetokunbo isn’t tried and possibly jailed, folks is not going to cease misbehaving. Nigeria isn’t a banana republic; this can be a nation with legal guidelines.

“Apart from legal protection, we have also written a petition that will be submitted to the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of Department of State Services should Adetokunbo not retract his words,” he acknowledged.

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 cast 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 tutorial credentials has already been exhaustively litigated and settled by the very best courts in each Nigeria and the United States.

He identified that in the course of the authorized proceedings initiated by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar within the U.S., Chicago State University’s registrar, Caleb Westberg, testified underneath oath in October 2023 and introduced 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 tutorial data instantly contradicted Pearse’s declare throughout his latest 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 trying 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.

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