The Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday.

 

Prior to his resignation, there has been controversy trailing his certificate said to be obtained from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State as well as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate.

According to a painstaking two-year investigation,  Nnaji allegedly forged the credentials he submitted to President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian Senate during his ministerial confirmation.

In July 2023 when President Tinubu named him among the first batch of 28 ministerial nominees from 25 states forwarded to the Senate, allegations of certificate forgery have dogged Nnaji since.

The online newspaper claimed that the the Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Simon Ortuanya, stated that although Nnaji was admitted to the institution in 1981, he did not complete his studies and was never awarded a degree.

The platform added that authorities at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) also confirmed that the certificate of national service being paraded by Nnaji was strange to it and could not be authenticated.