Yusuf Tuggar, the minister of foreign affairs, has stated in light of the recent controversy surrounding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago State University (CSU) that the administration of the president does not have time to waste on such “trivial matters” and that these are distractions.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Tuggar argued that Muhammadu Buhari, a former president, had dealt with a similar controversy over his academic credentials and that the controversy does not affect some of the current president’s recent international engagements.
The minister argued that given the dire circumstances in which the nation finds itself, Nigerians should not be upset by the certification and should instead focus on development. He added that the population of the country is increasing at a rate of 3% annually and pointed out that none of the international gatherings the president has attended or interacted with have shown interest in the saga.
“There 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’t have time to waste on that.”
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“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 was the captain; he was a head boy.”
“The foreign leaders that we’ve been engaging and the international organizations clearly are disinterested in wasting time on such.
”The economic challenges we are facing – we shouldn’t be wasting time about whether 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.
