No. 1, Bypass Junction, Akure, Ondo State
08062204655
Our Ref:…A.N. OBA/2023/057…. Your Ref:………… Date:…2nd August, 2023…
H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
The President of Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Presidential Villa,
Aso Rock,
F.C.T Abuja.
Your Excellency,
ATTEMPT TO COVER UP HON. BUNMI TUNJI OJO ON ILLEGAL PROCUREMENT OF N.Y.S.C. DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE: A SHOW OF SHAME AND THE NEED TO WITHDRAW THE NOMINATION OF HON. BUNMI TUNJI OJO AS MINISTER–DESIGNATE FORTHWITH
We are solicitors to Gbadamosi Olamilekan, Adejoba Muyiwa and Alabi Adebowale (for themselves and on behalf of entire members of Association for Honest and Transparent Leaders in Governance) (“Our Clients”). We have the perfect instruction of our clients to write you on the terms as hereunder.
Our clients are a group of eminent citizens of Nigeria who are very keen in promoting honesty and transparency in governance and particularly ensuring persons appointed in positions of authority in Nigeria are of proven integrity.
Our clients reliably briefed us that they were privileged to view the proceedings of the Nigerian 10th senate wherein the ministers nominees nominated by Your Excellency were been screened for confirmation. And particularly the screening of the aforementioned Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo caught their attention at the point where Senator Sadiq observed discrepancies in the N.Y.S.C certificate and the age of the minister–designate which prompted our clients to delve into the issue very meticulously and discreetly.
Your Excellency Sir, it is a stubborn fact that it is the conventional practice and law of the N.Y.S.C for discharged certificates to be signed and dated the very day the particular batch of the scheme ends and passed out. The N.Y.S.C certificates generally do not post date the passing out date of the batch the corps member belong to. This is not the case as far as Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo’s discharge certificate is concern. Hon. Ojo claimed to have served between 28th November 2019 and 27th November 2020 but his certificate was dated 28th February 2023. We hold this to be a fatal flaw in the certificate purportedly claimed to have been issued by the Directorate of National Youth Service Corps.
Furthermore Your Excellency, it is an undisputable fact that Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo was a member of the 9th National Assembly as a member of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Committee on N.D.D.C. The lifespan of the 9th Assembly was between June 2019 and June 2023 and he claimed to serve this nation as a Youth Corper between November 2019 and November 2020, a period that is within the period that he served as an acclaimed honourable member of the House of Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We hold that a single person cannot be at two places at the same time undertaking official responsibilities as claimed by Hon. Tunji Ojo.
Flowing from the foregoing, we submit without any equivocation and categorically that the purported discharge certificate Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo submitted to the Nigerian Senate for his screening fell short of standard of the N.Y.S.C. We submit further that the discharge certificate is forged or it was procured fraudulently. And it is imperative to state emphatically and unequivocally that the attempt to cover him up by Senator Adeniyi Adegbonmire, SAN by asking Hon. Tunji Ojo to take a bow when he could not give a satisfactory explanation at the floor of the senate is tantamount to show of shame and a clear attempt to cover up clandestine acts of people in position of authourity.
To this end Your Excellency, we demand that you use your high esteem and good office to withdraw the nomination of Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo’s nomination or stop his swearing in as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The case of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, a former minister of finance during President Buhari’s administration is a precedence and a notable reference in the annals of our governance in Nigeria. It is our humble counsel that doing the needful in this instance will go a long way in promoting the integrity test of your administration.
There must be no sacred cow when honesty, transparency and integrity is in issue. Whoever that is not honest and transparent with documents relating to his or her qualification particularly N.Y.S.C certificate is not a fit and proper person to occupy such exalted position of minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria like in the instant case of Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo. We respectfully demand that you direct law enforcement agency to investigate this complaint accordingly
Your Excellency Sir, we are very much aware of Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo’s intimacy with your Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Gbejabiamiala who may want to use his position to sweep this case under the carpet. Hence, we urge you to take serious note of the aforesaid fact and ensure justice is done in order to enhance the credibility of your administration. The Discharge Certificate is herewith attached for your reference sir.
With the assurances of our professional regards.
Yours faithfully,
PP: A.N. Obafemi Bawa & Associates
A. N. Obafemi Bawa, Esq.
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