CSU Paperwork: Tinubu’s aides complicated public on alleged certificates forgery — Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) within the February election, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu’s aides and supporters are telling lies and complicated the general public on the certificates forgery allegations towards the president.

He mentioned since Tuesday when the deposition relating to President Bola Tinubu’s academic {qualifications} got here to the fore in the US, there have been a number of makes an attempt to twist the info of the matter, which intentionally purpose to confuse the thoughts of the general public regarding the matter.

Atiku said this in an announcement by his spokesperson, Paul Ibe, on Sunday.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported the Chicago State College, in a deposition on Tuesday, mentioned President Tinubu did graduate from the college as he claimed.

The college was, nevertheless, not categorical when requested if the certificates he submitted to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), was solid.

Atiku has since filed for a go away of the Supreme Court docket to current what he termed as recent proof.

The lawyer to the president, Oluwole Afolabi, in an unique interview with PREMIUM TIMES, mentioned “There’s nothing within the document to again up such an allegation. He who alleges should show.”

“Some media aides to the president have come out overtly to ‘push again on the narrative’, whereas some media homes, particularly one, have persistently slanted their story to justify a corrupted interpretation of the info within the disposition.

“Sadly, nevertheless, the reality of the matter stays that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu falsified a doc he submitted to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and swore an affidavit underneath oath to again up his forgery,” Atiku mentioned.

The previous vp of Nigeria mentioned if Mr Tinubu wouldn’t resign honourably to avoid wasting the nation from embarrassment over the alleged forgery, his supporters ought to cease mendacity on the matter.

“If the President wouldn’t do what’s honourable by resigning from workplace and saving the nation an imminent embarrassment, not less than his supporters ought to desist from telling shameful lies to confuse the general public,” the assertion mentioned.

Tinubu’s NYSC certificates additional validates forgery allegation — Atiku

The previous vp mentioned the “discrepancies” within the NYSC certificates of Mr Tinubu additional validate the allegation of forgery.

Atiku mentioned the “Adekunle” within the NYSC certificates Mr Tinubu submitted to INEC didn’t function on the CSU certificates.

“Each Nigerian who has undergone the NYSC programme understands that the names on the NYSC are by no means a creation of the candidate, however the official identify that the scholar was formally often called, from their tertiary establishment.

“Tinubu was allegedly by no means often called Adekunle at CSU. Thus, the one option to perceive how Adekunle was smuggled on his NYSC discharge certificates can solely be defined as a forgery,” he mentioned.

He additionally urged the supporters of Mr Tinubu to desist from spinning the report on the deposition, stating that the deposition is obvious that Mr Tinubu solid the certificates.

“The reality of the matter stays that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, falsified a doc he submitted to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and swore an affidavit underneath oath to again up his forgery.

“President Tinubu’s supporters and spin medical doctors will wish to drive the narrative of, not less than, ‘Tinubu graduated from the CSU down our throat, even when the narrative has no foothold in logic.

“The query stays: How does a candidate graduate from a college that you simply have been by no means certified for?” he mentioned.

The Supreme Court docket can have the ultimate say on the dispute within the 25 February presidential election.

Learn the total assertion under:

PRESS RELEASE

Tinubu’s home of forgeries

Since Tuesday final week when the deposition relating to President Bola Tinubu’s academic {qualifications} got here to the fore in the US, there have been a number of makes an attempt to twist the info of the matter, which intentionally purpose to confuse the thoughts of the general public regarding the matter.

Some media aides to the president have come out overtly to ‘push again on the narrative’, whereas some media homes, particularly one, have persistently slanted their story to justify a corrupted interpretation of the info within the disposition.

Sadly, nevertheless, the reality of the matter stays that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu falsified a doc he submitted to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and swore an affidavit underneath oath to again up his forgery.

On web page 26 of the deposition which is publicly accessible, the Registrar of the Chicago State College, Caleb Westberg underneath oath, was requested a easy query, “CSU has decided that it doesn’t have a real and proper copy of the diploma issued to Bola Tinubu is 1979, right?

“To which the Registrar responded, “That’s right.”

Additionally, on web page 27, an analogous query was put to Mr. Westberg: “So, CSU, after going by way of each diploma, was unable to seek out an genuine copy of any diploma that CSU issued to Tinubu in 1979. Is that right?”

The CSU Registrar, in his response, mentioned: “We didn’t discover any diploma issued by CSU in 1979 to Mr Tinubu.”

And coming straight to the precise problem of whether or not the CSU is conscious of or in possession of the diploma that Tinubu submitted to INEC, to which Mr. Westberg merely mentioned, “Appropriate, we aren’t conscious of it.”

Certainly, anybody who has taken time to do an intensive studying of the deposition will come to the unambiguous conclusion that the footprints of Tinubu’s odyssey so far as the CSU paperwork are involved are stuffed with profound forgeries and abuse of administrative due course of.

President Tinubu’s supporters and spin medical doctors will wish to drive the narrative of, not less than, “Tinubu graduated from the CSU down our throat, even when the narrative has no foothold in logic.

The query stays: How does a candidate graduate from a college that you simply have been by no means certified for?

Based on data within the open, President Tinubu utilized to the CSU with a pre-qualifying 1970 certificates from Authorities School Lagos, whereas the varsity didn’t come into existence till 1974. Possibly this could make Tinubu the primary man ever to have an anticipatory certification from the varsity 4 clear years earlier than the founding of the varsity.

One other thriller is that along with the non-existing Authorities School Lagos certificates, Tinubu introduced a certificates from one other faculty in the US that belongs to a feminine candidate and a Cambridge HSC of 1970 – the identical yr he purportedly graduated from a secondary faculty in Nigeria.

Lengthy earlier than the CSU discovery of final week, Tinubu had had a historical past of forgery and perjury. In his type CF001 he filed forward of his governorship election in 1999, Tinubu had claimed albeit fraudulently that he attended St John’s Main Faculty Aroloya, Authorities School Ibadan and Chicago College as totally different from Chicago State College. The late lawyer and human rights icon Gani Fawehinmi would have succeeded in bursting him however for the immunity, he loved as Governor of Lagos State.

President Tinubu should be a person of thriller. No marvel his supporters name him Idan (a distorter).

It’s our competition that on the coronary heart of the forgery scandal towards President Tinubu is the query of integrity and morality.

If the President wouldn’t do what’s honourable by resigning from workplace and saving the nation an imminent embarrassment, not less than his supporters ought to desist from telling shameful lies to confuse the general public

Lastly, whereas supporters of the President are fast to reference his transcript from the Chicago State College as proof of his studentship within the faculty, we’re alarmed how his NYSC certificates bears Bola Adekunle Tinubu, even when the CSU mentioned underneath oath that the center identify of “A” was by no means interpreted in any doc in his file.

Each Nigerian who has undergone the NYSC programme understands that the names on the NYSC are by no means a creation of the candidate, however the official identify that the scholar was formally often called, from their tertiary establishment. Tinubu was allegedly by no means often called Adekunle at CSU. Thus, the one option to perceive how Adekunle was smuggled on his NYSC discharge certificates can solely be defined as a forgery.

But, his media aides will come to the open to make a shameful various reality.

It’s much more shameful that simply when this entire scandal continues to unfold, media handlers of President Tinubu have, from nowhere, smuggled the center identify of Adekunle into his Wikipedia account. The phrase Adekunle in Yoruba is a home stuffed with royalty. However on this occasion, we daresay it’s a home stuffed with forgeries.

It’s, due to this fact, turning into very apparent that there isn’t any finish level to how President Tinubu and his spin medical doctors will proceed to make use of one forgery to cowl the opposite.

Signed:
Paul Ibe
Media Adviser to Atiku Abubakar
Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (2023)
Abuja
eighth October, 2023.