Now I understand what has been playing out in this CSU issue case. While I have made my positions known about this CSU case, I have also followed up contrary opinions in support of Tinubu and I try to reason along and connect the dots. I choose never to be closed-minded.
That I chose a position yesterday does not mean I can not change it when superior argument arises.
I previously wrote about the integrity, credibility and consistency of Educational certificates from the side of how we as Nigerians were groomed. Nigeria, like many other former British colonies, has historically followed British standards more closely than American standards due to its historical ties with the United Kingdom. The British Standard is stricter than the American standard and from my observation of what is playing out in the Chicago State University certificates based on the court deposition by the Registrar, it is evident that their Certificates do not maintain any standard nor really consider the integrity or the credibility values that ought to characterize certificates.
According to the CSU Registrar, Caleb Westberg, the Chicago State University (CSU), does not typically keep diplomas. He also said that when there is a replacement diploma, “it is done by outside vendors”.
The British and American standards are different and owing to the fact that Nigeria was colonized by the British, we inherited many aspects of their culture, including the legal and educational systems, governance structures, and language.
It is this mindset we have been using to judge Tinubu on this certificate issue. I had also used the strict mindset to analyze this case before but on reading the deposition made by the school registrar, I now understand better.
Education in Nigeria has been influenced by the British system. The Nigerian educational system was modeled after the British system, and many Nigerian universities still follow the British higher education curriculum. English is the official language of Nigeria, and it is widely spoken and used in education, business, and government.
We think and reason like the British and as such think all countries operate like the British. I will admit that this is lack of exposure on our part. I take no exception.
The Registrar of CSU has admitted and confirmed that they do not really give any strict policy over their replacement certificates and such can be gotten from recognized vendors, an approach Tinubu used and the Registrar did not fault it as it seems to be a normal thing for them in the United States.
Now, it is established that Tinubu did not pick up a copy of his CSU replacement certificate directly from CSU but used one of the vendors. Based on the deposition by the Registrar, the act was in order and it is allowed as long as he truly attended and graduated from their institution.
The Registrar, Caleb admitted that Atiku's Lawyer, Enahoro picked up the copy of Tinubu's certificate with them while Tinubu picked his probably from one of the vendors.
The Registrar admitted that the Tinubu who attended and graduated with honors from their school was a male, and now the President of Nigeria. He was confident because Tinubu wasn't a commonly used name in the US and as such very easy to identify.
He said whatever discrepancy there was in the copy with Atiku would have been a mistake and anyone can make a typographical error.
Now, while everyone saw the Female gender recorded for Tinubu in the South West College record, the Social Security Number (SSN) which is a Unique identifier entered on that same document matched with the SSN on Tinubu's CSU certificate and it belongs to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a male.
I am very conversant with Unique numbers as I have worked as a codifier. I've dealt with manufacturers Part numbering and modelling system and their codes are unique. I have written database programs and automatically generated ID numbers which are unique and used as the Primary Keys. For the SSN to be consistent and match the same Tinubu, I can clearly tell you anytime any day that the Female gender recorded for Tinubu in the South West College records was a typographical error.
In your company, no two employees would have the same ID number.
In the United States of America, no two (2) citizens have the same SSN. Duplicate or shared SSNs would cause significant administrative issues and lead to identity confusion. Therefore, the Social Security Administration takes measures to ensure that each SSN is unique to a single individual
For the age discrepancy, the Registrar admitted that it must have been made in error, and he insisted that it was the same Tinubu who attended the South West College that also attended the CSU and that the courses taken by Tinubu at South West College were what he also took at CSU. He admitted that South West College was a feeder for CSU. Is it not age reduction that's so common amongst us? Why was Tinubu's age in the form he submitted in INEC form higher than what was in his CSU records? It's simple to realize that he might have made a mistake in one of them.
I am now more clarified on this issue. Yesterday I wrote that CSU should apologize to us but on reading the deposition, I now realized CSU doesn't owe us an apology, I and many others did not look beyond our standards, we just assumed every country follow the British strict standard of doing things.
Based on my understanding of the whole issue now, I apologize to those who were ahead of me. But you should also commend me for not being closed minded. *smiles*
Let's agree to disagree, then disagree to agree.
What I noticed is one of our major problems on social media is that we are clustered in different groups and as we get affiliated to this group, we find it very difficult to reason or think independently. We enclose ourselves in an echo chamber and shut out any contrary views otherwise if we decide to pave way to reason, our group members would drag us to filth.
Be an independent thinker, do not let anybody think for you. Think for yourselves. It is time everyone comes out from their echo chamber and contribute to issues based on sound and logical reasoning, not based on what any influencer says.
If I had belonged to any camp, honestly I wouldn't have been able to express my independent view and I wouldn't have been able discover lot of truths because my group members wouldn't give me the freedom to think rationally.
I would appreciate if this post is retweeted so many others who have read my previous views concerning this CSU issue also see this position based on a recent finding.
One of the basic principles of Science is that whenever a superior argument is presented, you must be willing to change your position. You are not a wood.
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Baba Tinubu withdraws all the Bureau the Change license from everyone sir those evil people are the brain behind why our naira keeps falling, sir. Allow people to go to the bank to buy dollars. Imagine you walk into the bank a bank manager will tell you to let him call his mallam for you. We are backward in Nigeria, and we are not ready to move forward at all. Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria. Imagine me walking into America Bank and the bank manager saying to me he wants to call someone outside the bank to do a transaction for me inside the bank no be juju be that. Baba Tinubu Nigerians need iron hands, or else they will mess up your government, you won't be able to achieve anything, sir. Don't compromise sir @officialABAT@femigbaja@SGFAkume
This was Nnamdi Azikwe stating on camera his ideology of one Nigeria which is to stop Lagos from being a Yorùbá state. When we call his people Zikists, we know what we are saying. This is one of the reasons why Azikwe and his followers hated Awolowo. Awolowo wanted the preservation of the Yoruba heritage of Lagos while Azikwe and his fellow invaders wanted to hide under one Nigeria to expel any form of Yorùbá identity in Lagos.
The gang up of some unfortunate and accurs:ed people from the South South with the Zikists from the East to impose Gbarebo in Lagos is to fulfill the ideology of Azikwe who is an eternal enemy of the Yoruba people.
To all Yorubas we are fighting a generational war.
99% of the people who rejoice when Nigeria is in Turmoil are Igbos.
99% of the people who weep when this Country is progressing are the Igbos.
99% of the people who join international Communities in Making Mockery of Nigeria are igbos.
Yesterday, I saw the video of some charlatans from Niger Republic Making Mockery of President Tinubu, and I went through the reactions only to find out that 99% Nigerians supporting them are from Southeast.
It's very clear now, the biggest enemies of this Country called Nigeria are from the Southeast.
YORUBALAND IS UNDER SIEGE: THE CLAIMS OF IGBOPHOBIA BY THE ZIKISTS IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ON NIGERIA AND THE YORUBAS
In the name of one Nigeria, Yorubaland has been turned into a battleground by right wing neoliberal ethnofascists who want to weaponize democracy and human rights to overthrow Yoruba Obas and Yoruba political leaders.
I want anybody reading this to show me one tweet or disclaimer by any top Igbo politician against the rhetoric of the Obidient members when they launched a massive propaganda campaign of hate against MKO Abiola, Awolowo and Tinubu. They called Awolowo a Tribalist and mass murderer and spent millions of naira to produce a video where MKO Abiola a whole Aare Oona kakanfo of YORUBALAND was called a drug baron. Not only that. they made videos and audios to spread anti Yoruba rhetoric about Lagos, Yoruba identity and Yoruba Obas.
They hid their expansionist ideology and political power grab under the banner of bringing good governance while strategically plotting to depose and replace Yoruba leaders with their own ethnic kinsmen. To be a leader in this movement, you must be pro Igbo, a Christian, admit to Igbo supremacy, follow the propaganda without questioning and be anti Yoruba. If you dare not support any of the aforementioned rules, you will be attacked, your family will be mocked, your personal address will be released to the public, your employers will be harassed, your brand will be negatively reviewed, your life will be threatened and if they have their way they will declare economic war on you.
The same people who perpetrated all these evil will still be the people to get cameras to start crying and telling the whole world that they are being attacked. Scores of people were killed in Rivers and across Nigeria but they are not interested in that because their patriarch, Azikwe has told them that Yorùbáland belongs to them and they must rule it politically directly or by proxy. We are not dealing with people who want good governance but people want to rule and subjugate Yoruba people at all cost in Yorubaland. Awolowo was the best Africa at his time when it comes to administration yet Azikwe and NCNC did not stop defaming his name and other conservative Yoruba leaders till they orchestrated an alliance that sent him to prison and trumped up charges.
Charly Boy was asking Nigerian youths to stand up and burn down Nigeria, he was not asking for the burning down of Nigeria in the real sense of it, he was asking for the burning of Lagos and the Southwest just like ENDSARS. The same individuals just like Ezekwesili are quick to shout Igbophobia in order to mask their evil rhetoric and agenda against the indigenous people of Yorùbáland.
The claims of Igbophobia by people who called rear admiral Ogalla a fake Igbo is the classical definition of narcissism. A narcissistic individual always claims victimhood in order to get away with evil and destruction of others. It is therefore pertinent to classify those who called Yoruba ronu a racial slur as NARCISSISTIC AND PSYCHOPATHIC INDIVIDUALS.
Ask these evil people what they want from Yorùbá people that is making them spread hate against the Yoruba people, they will tell you two things namely; they want political power in Yorubaland and secondly they want Tinubu to resign as the president of Nigeria and over to Peter Obi or any "other" person. It is an ideology of hatred and total vanquish of anything Yoruba politically, economically and militarily.
When they shout Igbophobia, they are working on your brains and minds so that they can continue their internal conquest of Yorùbáland.
YORUBA RONU: A THREAT TO ZIKIST LAND GRABBING AGENDA IN YORUBALAND
In 1948, Azikwe the Igbo leader of the first Republic declared war on Egbe omo oduduwa a Yoruba organization formed by Awolowo to defend Yoruba's interest in Yorubaland. Why? Ibibio state union and Ibo federal union was formed before this period yet the Yorubas did not cry blood, we minded our business in Yorubaland but the day Egbe omo oduduwa was founded by Awolowo was the day Azikwe and the Igbo intelligentsia of the first republic declared "fatwa" on Awo and any pro Yoruba political leader.
Azikwe called Egbe omo oduduwa a fascist movement that must be crushed. He wrote letters and petitions to the British government to jail Awolowo because he argued that Yoruba unity and brotherhood is an existential threat to Igbo interest and agenda in Nigeria most especially Yorubaland. He lobbied the British government to charge Awolowo with treason in order to look for a legal way to get rid of Awolowo because he saw Awolowo as the only impediment for the political takeover of Yorubaland by Igbos.
During this period, Herbert Ogunde the foremost Yoruba poet and theater practitioner released a song called "Yoruba Ronu". Herbert Ogunde wrote this song to call for Yoruba unity most especially to call out the agenda of Azikwe and his followers in their quest to entrench the internal division within the Yoruba people. Zik hated any form of unity within the Yoruba people because he understood that the destruction and disunity of Yoruba people is where the strength of the Igbos lies politically in Nigeria.
Yoruba Ronu became a philosophical battle cry for all Yorubas during this period to come together to defend their ancestral lands from hateful and vici:ous souls parading as fellow countrymen. It is also not surprising that Olusegun Obasanjo as the military head of state banned the song Yoruba Ronu on Nigeria's airwaves. Are you now convinced that those who don't see OBJ as part of Yoruba leaders have a strong point? or are you now aware why Igbos are always praising Obasanjo while cursing Awolowo? Obasanjo was a potent weapon of mass destruction for them when it comes to the destruction of Yoruba unity and cohesion.
The Neo-Zikist group called the Obidiot movement with its political party called the labour party with its NCNC manifesto declared war on Yoruba Ronu in 2023 elections. Azikwe their father called Yoruba Ronu a fascist slur, the descendants of Zik have termed Yoruba Ronu a Nazi terminology. They hate Yoruba unity, they hate Yoruba cohesion, they hate Yoruba culture, they hate Yoruba stability and prosperity but these sons and dau:ghters of perdition that Professor Wole Soyinka regarded as nattering nitwits and neoliberal ethnofascists want to hijack YORUBALAND from Yoruba people.
Their greatest weapons are propaganda, misinformation, denigration, political Christianity hateful ethnic minorities and brainwashed Yoruba Gen Zs with zero form of self preservation. They want Yorubaland deethnicized and deyorubanized so that they relocate their population from the East to take over YORUBALAND under the cover of Nigeria.
The agenda of the neo Zikists is not different from Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum project of relocating German populations to non German speaking areas and taking it over via political power grab and change in demography. The Obidiot NeoZikist movement will lead to the second civil war in Nigeria because it is breeding Ethnofascists who believe they can appropriate indigenous lands to their space via one Nigeria. I am not surprised though because the ranks of the Obidiots mobs is populated by IPOB members who want to use labour party as a weapon of war against Yorubas.
Yoruba Ronu, has been there undoing because it stopped them in their track of the weaponization of Yoruba hate for political power grab.
On the mountain, on the ground, under the water and in your dreams, we will continue to "YORUBA RONU". You have lost this war!!!
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