Alleged Forgeries: Atiku Exposes Tinubu New Areas Of Identity Theft

…Says, he should address carry-over of English, Maths and comprehension

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday declared that since 1970 when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came under public record to have falsified his academic credentials by claiming to have graduated from a school that was non-existent, the narrative of his public profile continues to get dirty and messier by the turn of every decade.

Atiku in a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, said that the latest in the rigmarole of President Tinubu’s life of forgeries and falsification of documents is the recent declaration by the Chicago State University.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, said that the certificate presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission was not the same issued by the Chicago State University, stressing that it was an act that constitutionally disqualifies the offender from the election.

Atiku, who stated these while reacting to avalanche of trolls on social media and some sections of the mainstream media seeking to query his educational credentials, said that he acknowledged the inquiries as being healthy because they seek to probe the truth.

He however said; “Quite a number of their engagements suggest presenting a duality of allegations of forgery that put Atiku Abubakar at a parallel with the forgery committed by President Tinubu in his documentations to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

“To start with, Atiku Abubakar wrote his WAEC examination in 1968 with the name Siddiq Abubakar. Every elementary student of Islamic civilization will not find it hard to decipher that both Siddiq and Atiku are names that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) gave to his bosom friend, Caliph Abubakar.

“Therefore, Siddiq and Atiku are names that have a historical link to one person in Islamic theology.

“Atiku Abubakar, knowing full well the importance of proper documentation, went ahead in 1973, more than 50 years ago to depose to an affidavit that he would wish to be known officially as Atiku Abubakar and still keeps the original copy of that affidavit up to this day.

“The meticulousness that has been displayed by Atiku in this instance shows an example of an upright man.

“However, while it has only taken Atiku less than 24 hours to come out with full disclosure on his public records, President Tinubu has lived behind the veil for more than half of a century,” it said.

Atiku also said that he noticed that a lot of those who engage on the issue of his names are supporters and aides of President Tinubu, stressing that it was on that note that he called on President Tinubu to follow his (Atiku) example by coming before Nigerians and the world to explain how he got about his name, his educational background, the history of his early years, the true owner of the Southwest College transcript with which he got admission to the CSU, why he refused to go and retake his pre-qualifying examination for the admission and, more importantly, how he came about the discredited and forged certificate of the Chicago State University that he submitted to INEC.

The statement further said; “If President Tinubu refuses to take the lead set by Atiku, Nigerians and the world will forever judge him through a popular Yoruba proverb translation that says: “the upright walk on the straight path, only the crooked beat corners.”