Termites ate my school certificate, says CJN Tanko

Tanko Muhammad in an affidavit which he submitted to the Senate last week to be confirmed as the head of the Supreme Court said “No portion of the certificate was salvaged,”. 

The specific affidavit has been circulating on social media for some days now. Muhammad swore the affidavit on February 13, 2002, while he was a judge at the Jos Division of the Court of Appeal. He became a Supreme Court judge in 2007. 

The claims said the judge criminally altered his date of birth by three years from December 31, 1950, to December 31, 1953.

Mr Muhammad denied the allegations, and a federal judge later ruled on May 31 that the complainant had no rights to file the lawsuit.