Reno Omokri, ambassador-designate to Mexico, has defended President Bola Tinubu over questions surrounding his primary and secondary school education, saying many Nigerians of his generation did not attend regular schools.

Omokri made the statement on Sunday while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.

He said some Nigerians were homeschooled during the period when Tinubu would have attended primary and secondary school, arguing that the absence of conventional school certificates should not be a major issue.

“Are you aware that at the time the president went to primary school, at the time the president would have gone to primary school, secondary school, most Nigerians were not going to regular schools; a lot of them were being homeschooled,” Omokri said.

He challenged critics questioning Tinubu’s educational background to produce evidence of their own primary school classmates.

“If you ask some of these opponents of the president to produce their primary school classmate, they cannot,” he said.

Omokri also cited his own family as an example, noting that his child is homeschooled and that his Ethiopian wife was also homeschooled.

He maintained that Tinubu is qualified to hold the presidency and seek re-election in 2027.

“We know for a fact that the president is qualified for the position he’s holding, for the position he wants to be reelected to,” he said.

On Tinubu’s tertiary education, Omokri referred to the president’s attendance at Chicago State University, saying the institution’s registrar testified in court and confirmed that Tinubu was admitted, attended and graduated from the university.

“He went to Chicago State University. The registrar of that school went to court, and they confirmed that Tinubu was admitted, attended, and graduated from that school. That is enough,” Omokri said.

The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has expressed confidence that the party will defeat the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2027 general elections if the polls are free and fair or not.

Abdullahi stated this during an interview on Symfoni TV while responding to questions on whether the ADC would be able to defeat the ruling APC in the 2027 election.

He said the party had no doubt that it would win a free and fair election, but expressed concerns over the possibility of electoral manipulation.

“In a free and fair election, we have no doubt in our minds that we will win this election. The challenge is, will there be a free and fair election?

“We are ready for that. We are ready for anything. We are dealing with these APC people; you have to be ready for anything because we know that they will want to steal the election.

“We will police our votes. We know the things that we will do. We won’t tell you, but we are ready for them because we know that if you dine with the devil, you have to have a long spoon,” he said.