Politics

Tinubu’s Certificate: We Can’t Waste Time On Trivial Matters – FG

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said the controversies surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s academic records does not cast a shadow on some of the President’s recent international engagements.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, made this known when he featured on Channels Television’s breakfast show, ‘Sunrise Daily’.

Tugar, who argued that former president Muhammadu Buhari experienced a similar issue, said the Tinubu-led administration cannot waste its time on “trivial matters” of certificate qualification.

“There is a tendency to always try to distract people on such frivolous issues as opposed to facing the major issues of development. We don’t have time to waste on that.

“Nobody 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.

“You 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 and was the captain? He was a head boy.

“The foreign leaders that we’ve been engaging and the international organisations clearly are disinterested in wasting time on such. We pay no mind to that.

“With the economic challenges we are facing, we shouldn’t be wasting time about some certificate; whether there is a T missing or an I hasn’t been dotted. That shouldn’t be our primary focus at the moment,” he said.

Adewale Nurudeen

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