Peter Obi of the Labour Party says there is no way people who are forging certificate and engaging in age, and all sorts of falsification can be able to do the right things (in office) because that means they are living a falsified life.
Mr Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate said this in an interview on ARISE TV Monday morning, noting that President Bola Tinubu’s controversial Chicago State University records question the credibility of Nigeria.
He stressed that leaders who falsify age and certificates cannot govern well.
Obi said, “We are at the point where we are challenging the process. These are part of what makes a nation. The process through which people come into office is far more fundamental than what they do thereafter.
“If you look at what is happening today in Nigeria today, so many issues of certificate, age, all sorts of one falsification or the other all over within the leaders. There is no way people doing this can be able to do the right things because that means they are living a falsified life. That is not good morally.”
He added “there are so many great people in the world who did not go to school.”
“One of the greatest presidents America ever had is Abraham Lincoln. He did not go to formal school. In fact, his entire formal education is less than one year because he came from a poor home and did not have formal education.”
Mr Obi explained that Mr Lincoln “didn’t have to say he read PhD here or did this one here and then there is an argument like what we are having in Nigeria today which is bringing the credibility of the country to question.”
Obi’s comment comes amid a ruling by a US judge ordering CSU to release Mr Tinubu’s academic records by 12pm today Chicago time.
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