Posted by Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, has called on President Bola Tinubu and his team to come clean about the numerous problems that have dogged them.
At a news conference held on Sunday in Abuja, a group of Atiku’s advisors led by Paul Ibe issued the challenge.
The media consultants have pointed out that Tinubu’s team seems obsessed with a supposedly minor difference in the day and date of an avidavit Atiku deposed to in order to legally change his name more over half a century ago.
They said, “Since the discovery of documents with Chicago State University brought to the forefront the litany of certificate forgeries and impersonation by President Bola A. Tinubu, many of his media aides have tried to create a parallel narrative about the public life of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
From the outset of their fruitless crusade, it was clear that Bola A. Tinubu’s media allies and followers were doing nothing more than picking at Atiku Abubakar’s public profile until they found anything they could sink their rotten teeth into.
“It was funny to see them sprinting kiti-kata like a person who drinks water out of a cup with no holes in it, as they say in Naija.
They eventually uncovered that Atiku Abubakar’s affidavit, in which he requested to be recognized as Atiku Abubakar in public, was signed on a Saturday, August 18, 1973. Ici voilà!
The APC e-rats have finally located their holy grail.
They don’t care that Bola A. Tinubu turned out to be a woman, or that he forged a certificate to get on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s voter rolls, or that he was the guinea pig student at Government College Lagos four years before it was even established.
All that mattered to them was damaging Atiku Abubakar’s reputation in the public eye.
You’re a robber and I’m a thief, just like the late Fela Anikulapo used to say. The fact that you are a thief as well is not an acceptable explanation for your behavior.
They thought they had discovered a fellow traveler on the path to dishonor through certificate falsification.
When it was revealed that Atiku’s affidavit had been signed on a Saturday, he continued, “So, they flew into a frenzy; lubricated as a diesel train.
They make us think of Elton John’s classic album, Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting (1974).
They are quite loud and disrespectful. They went shirtless and ended up with a partner.
Holy God! The document was signed by Atiku on the weekend! They let out a bloodcurdling scream. They are hypnotized and intoxicated by the music. They move as smoothly as a well-oiled machine.
But we know the man we work for well enough to realize that their hysteria was all in their heads.
To find out if it was truly ludicrous to have court papers signed on a Saturday, we looked into the registry of the Lagos State high courts in the same year, 1973.
Our research shows that some 1973 court documents were signed on Saturdays, as evidenced by their inclusion in our database. Despite what the corn-men would have you believe, Atiku Abubakar’s affidavit wasn’t the only one signed on Saturday.
We’ll show you slides with our findings right now. One who will sit in the presidential chair of a democratic nation must be a person of impeccable moral character.
A president should model the highest standards of honesty and openness.
The president of a country should represent the ideals that the country promotes. Forgeries and impersonation are not tolerated in Nigeria.
To that end, we’d like to reiterate our request that President Bola A. Tinubu follow Atiku Abubakar’s lead and address the lingering questions and rumors regarding his background.
Since Lagos is his territory, we challenge Bola A. Tinubu to do as we have done today and publicly release a copy of the certificate he used to apply to Chicago State University in 1970.
He could as well tell us that he printed the fake Chicago State University degree he showed the Independent National Electoral Commission at a business center inside Lagos’s Oluwole Market.
We can only speculate that Bola A. Tinubu has some dirty laundry to hide, therefore let’s presume the president is too timid to come clean. He can feel safe telling us what’s in those closets.
It’s bad enough that the FBI and other American law enforcement agencies are getting ready to start exposing humiliating details about our president.
Even more embarrassing is the fact that President Bola A. Tinubu will do everything in his power to prevent such revelations about his history, claiming they will do him irreparable harm. Bola A. Tinubu must be warned that the release of the #FBITinubuFiles by the FBI and other US security agencies will do irreparable damage to Nigeria.
A Nigerian official once said, “Nigeria is a country of laws, and no one person, no matter how highly positioned, is bigger than our laws.
We are hopeful that Atiku’s media team’s investigation into his Saturday affidavit will put this matter to rest and give Bola A. Tinubu’s team a chance to explain their decades of fabrications and lies. Nigerians are waiting for them to cease the “kindergarten Tom and Jerry” that has brought shame and disgrace to their country.