VERIFICATION: Did Yekini Amoda Ogunlere Bear the Name Tinubu? A claim that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is running for president as a candidate f...
VERIFICATION: Did Yekini Amoda Ogunlere Bear the Name Tinubu?
A claim that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is running for president as a candidate for the All Progressives Congress, changed his name over the years to what it is now...
Sunday, a Facebook user named Jackson Ude posted on a page called Nigeria Cycle that Tinubu's primary and secondary school certificates had a different names.
Edo Citizens Forum was the name of Nigeria Cycle when it was made on July 6, 2020. On the 20th of the same month, it was changed to Bellview Org. On August 22, 2020, it was changed to Nigeria Cycle.
People like the page (9,913) and follow it (12,227). A search of the website on the page didn't show anything useful about who the user was or what they were trying to do.
"Bola Tinubu's real name is Yekini Amoda Ogunlere from Iragbiji Osun State," the post says. This is what his primary and secondary school certificates say, which is why he hasn't brought them to INEC.
Verification
Daily Trust found that the claim went viral on nairaland in August 2014 and is only being shared again.
A Twitter user named @Officialmanny4 also said that Bola Ahmed Tinubu's real name is "Yekini Amoda Ogunlere" from Iragbiji, Osun state, as shown on his primary school certificate. In the 1970s, when he was wanted in the US for a drug crime, he changed his name to Tinubu. So, he didn't give them to INEC."
Remember that on Friday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released information about the 16 presidential candidates and their running mates who will be running in the 2023 election.
Tinubu didn't say anything about his primary and secondary education, and he didn't send any proof of his college education.
Instead, he sent an affidavit to INEC saying that his certificates had been stolen while he was in exile during the time of the late General Sani Abacha.
The affidavit says, "From October 1994 to October 1998, I lived on my own. When I got back, I found that all of my belongings, including my qualifications papers, and certificates, had been stolen by people I didn't know. Since the military took over the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on November 17, 1993, my house has been searched several times by security agents. "I was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Banking, and Finance. In 1993, I was also one of the people who sued the interim national government. Tinubu said in his claim, "I went into exile when it became clear that my life was in danger."
But Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, didn't show that Tinubu's name had changed before.
Nigerians have been reacting to the fact that Tinubu can't name the schools he went to or show copies of his diplomas. People think that because of this claim, he either didn't go to school as most people think or is hiding something about himself that could hurt his chances in the next election.
Conclusion
There isn't enough proof that Bola Ahmed Tinubu changed his name in the past, and he has always said that he is from Lagos State.