Nigeria\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, says the present administration does not have time to waste on \u2018frivolous issues\u2019 following controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu\u2019s claim of having attended and obtained a certificate from Chicago State University (CSU) in the United States of America.<\/p>\n
While appearing on Channels TV Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, Tuggar stated that the certificate saga has had no effect on the recent international engagements of President Tinubu, adding that the issue \u2018is a distraction\u2019.<\/p>\n
His words: \u201cThere is a tendency to always try to distract and detain people on such frivolous issues as opposed to facing the major issues of development. We don\u2019t have time to waste on that.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe foreign leaders with whom we\u2019ve been engaging and the international organizations clearly are disinterested in wasting time on such.”<\/p>\n
Tuggar also stated that Nigerians should be focused on the economic challenges in the country presently and not on the certificate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe economic challenges we are facing \u2013 we shouldn\u2019t be wasting time about whether some certificate, whether there is a T missing or an I hasn\u2019t been dotted. That shouldn\u2019t be our primary focus at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Recall that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had requested that President Bola Tinubu\u2019s academic records be made available by Chicago State University (CSU) in an application to the US District Court in Northern Illinois.<\/p>\n
The documents were released to Atiku\u2019s legal team on Monday by the university after a United States court ordered that the academic records of President Tinubu be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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