(Dr Adetokunbo Pearse. Photo by The Sun Nigeria)
A former lecturer at Chicago State University, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, has said the Minister of Education is lying about President Bola Tinubu’s school records.
Pearse, who once taught at the American university between 1985 and 1990, made the claim during an interview on a television programme.
He also doubted that Tinubu ever attended the school.
Pearse, a Lagos chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, said he knows the programme Tinubu says he took and insisted the president never studied there.
When the interviewer reminded him that the minister had confirmed Tinubu’s attendance, Pearse brushed it aside.
He said the minister works for the president and called both men liars.
He went further and said Tinubu had listed schools he never went to in the records he submitted to the electoral commission, INEC.
He also said he was once the director of the same programme Tinubu claims to have attended.
The timeline in the report does not line up.
Pearse says he taught at the university from 1985 to 1990, while the university has already confirmed that Tinubu attended between 1977 and 1979 and earned a degree in Business Administration.
The claims come as political talk builds ahead of the 2027 general elections, with Tinubu’s education still under close public watch.