The assertion that President Bola Tinubu attended Government College Lagos (GCL), where Fola Adeniran-Ogunsanya is a pioneering student and the son of the late Nigerian politician and lawyer Adeniran Ogunsanya (SAN), has drawn criticism.
Ogunsanya, who asserted to be a member of the school’s original class, stated that during his four years there, President Tinubu was never introduced to him.
Ogunsanya’s admission comes at a time when President Tinubu’s academic background is the subject of debate.
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had requested Tinubu’s record from the Chicago State University in a move to appeal the ruling of the presidential tribunal.
In an interview with Rifnote, Ogunsanya claimed that President Tinubu is unable to name classmates even if he actually attended the institution.
He said, “It was last week that I read that he attended Government College, Lagos. I called a couple of my friends. I said Government College ke!1970? That was what blew my mind. Government College was not established in 1970, it was established in 1974. I was part of the first set of Government College, Lagos.
“I’m sorry to say, the president was not in our set. For the next four years that I was there, I don’t think the president was ever there. I would have met him, known him. I’m in the pioneer set of Government College, Eric Moore, so if you want to know most of the people that attended Government College, I can blot out names, Can our president do that? Just asking. There was Solomon Onwukwe, the Shitta Bays, Semiu Ibrahim, I can go on and on.”
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“The government colleges were set up in 1974, and I would have gone to Igbobi College or St Gregory’s College, but my father was telling me when I was there that he could not start a school for Lagos indigenes and his son would go to a different college,” said Ogunsanya when discussing how his father established government colleges in Lagos as a Commissioner for Education.
“How would that appear? When it was set up, I was one of the first set that attended the Government College, Lagos. There was Government College, Lagos, Government College, Epe, there was one in Ito Ikin, Government College, Badagry, Government College, Ikorodu. Government College, Ojo is the one that is LASU now. It used to be a government college then.”
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