Whatever justification President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's die-hard supporters may offer for the alleged forgery charge against him, it is clear that Caleb Westberg, the registrar of Chicago State University and deponent/witness to Chicago State University, has made it clear that it does not have the certificate that Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 general elections.

He further pointed out that Tinubu never applied for a replacement certificate and was never granted one. However, any CSU student who loses their certificate must contact CSU directly to replace their certificate.

He further stated that although each institution has its own transcript replacement process, which may involve the student paying a certain amount directly to the school by money order or certified check, no student should request a replacement by contacting a school salesperson directly. To do this, the student must obtain a note from the school authorities approving the process. Which Tinubu never did. This obviously meant he could have forged one himself.

Sharing his views on Tinubu, Professor Steve Hanks emphatically said: “We all know that Tinubu forged his diploma.

Steve H. Hanke is professor of applied economics and founder and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University.

Hanke is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., a senior advisor at the International Monetary Research Institute of Renmin University, Beijing, China and a special advisor to the Center for Financial Stability in New York.

Hanke is also an editor at Central Banking in London and a contributor to the National Review. Furthermore, Hanke is a member of the Charter Council of the Society for Economic Measurement and of the Euromoney Country Risk expert group.

He is a renowned and respected economist and financial analyst. Investors listen to him and when he tells you this, he says the same thing to many real investors. So a warning sign for potential investors in Nigeria.

For those who know the danger of document forgery, the Tinubu certificate saga has certainly made the world now view every Nigerian as a forger, fraudster or identity thief.

However, according to a supposed finding by the BBC's Global Disinformation Team, the team claimed that there is no evidence that the diploma presented by Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the country's electoral commission was forged.

The agency stated this even though the CSU clarified that it never issued the aforementioned certificate nor allowed a third party to issue it.