The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has resigned from President Bola Tinubu’s authorities.
The Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed this in an announcement on Tuesday.
Prior to his resignation, there was controversy trailing his certificates mentioned to be obtained from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State in addition to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificates.
While he claimed to have graduated from UNN in 1975, report has it that the citadel of studying couldn’t authenticate that Nnaji scaled by way of his tutorial sojourn.
According to a painstaking two-year investigation by PREMIUM TIMES, Nnaji allegedly solid the credentials he submitted to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian Senate throughout his ministerial affirmation.
In July 2023 when President Tinubu named him among the many first batch of 28 ministerial nominees from 25 states forwarded to the Senate, allegations of certificates forgery have dogged Nnaji since.
PRESIDENT TINUBU ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF GEOFFREY NNAJI AS MINISTER
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accepted the resignation of Geoffrey Uche Nnaji, the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, following some allegations towards him.
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Some quarters have lengthy insisted that Nnaji didn’t full his college schooling and that each the bachelor’s diploma and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificates he offered to President Tinubu, in addition to to the workplaces of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the State Security Service (SSS), and the Senate, had been solid.
The on-line newspaper claimed that the the Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Simon Ortuanya, said that though Nnaji was admitted to the establishment in 1981, he didn’t full his research and was by no means awarded a level.
The platform added that authorities on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) additionally confirmed that the certificates of nationwide service being paraded by Nnaji was unusual to it and couldn’t be authenticated.