A public affairs analyst, Durojaiye Ogunsanya on Wednesday said he was one of the classmates of President Bola Tinubu at the Chicago State University (CSU).
Ogunsanya who spoke in an interview with TVC said he graduated from the university alongside President Tinubu from the Department of Accounting and Business Administration in 1979.
Ogunsanya, while speaking on TVC’s This Morning, testified that he and Nigeria’s President graduated from the Department of Accounting and Business Administration in 1979 from the same university.
Ogunsanya said: “We met in a school: Chicago State University; we were in the same College of Accounting, Business and Administration, with major in accounting, and we were in the same class together and graduated.
“He did attend the university and graduated in 1979 as I did. So I’m here to testify that he did attend the university, and he was a good student.”
On what he made of people saying that Tinubu did not graduate from the school, Ogunsanya said: “People were being mischievous in the first place. Because he was a governor for eight years, somebody who worked for Mobil several years and you contesting that he didn’t go to university. Is that possible?
“I cannot imagine how that is possible. Sometimes the President might be embellishing, but that does not mean that he didn’t attend the university. He has the record there for people to go and check to confirm all these things that he did.
“I was a bonafide student. I first went to engineering school and nautical engineering. Then I decided no, it’s not for me. I changed college. That’s when I transferred.
“The beauty of it all in America is they make it easy for everybody. There is an opportunity for anybody. You can start from scratch and build yourself up. And you do it even with high school GED.
“You take the exam. Once you pass it you can apply to any college, which is for two years; there you can transfer your credit to a four-year college.
