Okonkwo made the claim while reacting to the credentials published by INEC for presidential candidates ahead of the 2027 general election.
INEC recently published the credentials and other details of candidates seeking the presidency, with Tinubu’s submission listing his university qualification but not including certificates from his primary and secondary education.
Reacting in a post on X, Okonkwo argued that Nigerian laws governing admission into universities and qualification for elective office must be respected.
“Nigeria has its laws that should be respected. No Nigerian is qualified to go to a University without five credits at the O’ Level,” he wrote.
The ADC chieftain further questioned Tinubu’s reliance on a foreign university certificate, while alleging that the institution had publicly disputed its authenticity.
“Tinubu purporting to be qualified for President by providing a foreign University certificate, which the University publicly declared did not emanate from it, without providing his secondary school certificate or its equivalent disqualifies him from being President,” Okonkwo alleged.
He blamed what he described as “judicial rascality” for the challenges facing Nigeria’s democracy, arguing that court decisions had contributed to undermining the proper separation of powers.
“The only reason our democracy is in peril is because of judicial rascality,” he stated.
Okonkwo also criticised some members of the judiciary, alleging that certain judges had acted beyond their constitutional responsibilities by interpreting laws in ways that, according to him, encroached on the powers of the executive and legislature.
“Despite all warnings by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the National Judicial Council, some judges have operated as an island on their own, interpreting the laws they made on the bench, bereft of the imprimatur of the legislature,” he added.
He further alleged that some judges had “usurped the powers of the executive and the legislature from the bench with the instrumentality of perverse judgement.”
The claims come amid renewed political debate over the educational credentials submitted by presidential candidates ahead of the 2027 elections.
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