A former aide to ex president Goodluck Jonathan and bestselling author, Reno Omokri, has said that Arise TV morning show co-host Rufai Oseni lied about Chicago State University denying that President Bola Tinubu attended the school. In a series of posts on his handle on X, formerly Twitter,, Omokri said that contrary to the journalist’s claims, that the institution never denied Tinubu being its former student. “Rufai Oseni, a presenter on AriseTV’s The Morning Show, stirred the hornet’s nest when he claimed on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, that Chicago State University was hit with a subpoena, and based on that document, they disclaimed Bola Tinubu’s academic records,” Omokri said in a post. “This was three months before the Presidential election. Mr. Oseni then claimed on air that he had sourced that ‘fact’ from The Vanguard newspaper. Chicago State University, however, deposed to an affidavit on August 23, 2023, upholding Mr. Tinubu’s academic standing as a former student and graduate of the school. A source at the newspaper said The Vanguard never reported what was credited to it by Mr. Oseni, perceived to have a soft spot for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Obi contested against Tinubu in Nigeria’s presidential election in February. To date, neither AriseTV nor Mr. Oseni has done a corrigendum correcting this non-factual statement made and passed off as news to the Nigerian public. Moreover, several Nigerians have published documents they received from Chicago State University affirming thatPresident Tinubu attended and graduated from the university, including Omokri and popular columnist and US-based professor Farooq Kperogi.
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