Finally, President Tinubu Publicly Identifies And Introduces Chicago School Mate

By Adesina Soyooye

In a light-hearted manner, President Bola Tinubu has pulled the rug from under the feet of those who taunt, and doubt him when he says he was a student of the Chicago State University, United States of America.

From 1999 when he became the Governor of Lagos State, the President has been under public scrutiny over his education background – where he went to school, if indeed he did, they add.

Even though neither the primary nor the secondary schools he attended has been identified, they have not been the subject of any serious scrutiny. All attention has been on the University President Tinubu attended in Chicago, USA. The questions tumble: Did he attend the University he claims he did? Did he come out with a certificate? How did he even gain admission into the University? With whose result. As a female or a male? Which gender does his University certificate bear? Where are his school mates? Let him even show us one of his school mates.

On Monday, President Tinubu did, publicly.

In Abuja, while speaking at the launch of the Renewed Hope Agriculture Mechanisation Program where he introduced 2,000 tractors and 9,000 specialized farming implements, President Tinubu veered off his prepared speech to “shame his traducers.”

He proudly introduced a foreigner, from Belarus, as his school mate. He said he was his neighbor and school mate, a fellow student in Chicago.

“To all of you”, President Tinubu began, “Alex was my very good neighbor, and went to the same school with me in Chicago. Never did we dream that I would be in this position as President of Nigeria, and Alex, a successful businessman from Belarus.” He added that their school, which name he did not give, must be very proud of both of them.

An Alex, who was grinning from ear to ear stood up and lapped it all in his stride. He took his time before he sat down.

Noted one mischievous gentleman: “We don’t know whether this man is grinning because he went to school with the President, or the money, in hard currency, he has come to Nigeria to make.” Whatever, doubting Thomases has now seen one of President Tinubu’s Chicago  school mates.