The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged President
Bola Tinubu and his team to stop chasing shadows, spare Nigeria’s image further
damage by coming clean on the myriad of controversies surrounding him.
A team of Atiku’s aides, led by Paul Ibe, gave this
challenge at a press conference, in Abuja, on Sunday.
The media advisers noted that Tinubu’s team appears fixated
on an inconsequential alleged discrepancy in the day/date an avidavit deposed
to by Atiku to officially change his name over 50 years ago.
They said, “Since the discovery of documents with Chicago
State University brought to the fore the litany of certificate forgeries and
impersonation by President Bola A. Tinubu, there have been attempts by many of
his media aides to create a parallel narrative about the public life of former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
“It was obvious from the start of their journey into
futility that what the media aides and supporters of Bola A. Tinubu were doing
was a random bite of the public profile of Atiku Abubakar until they found an
item they could chomp with their filthy teeth.
“It was amusing watching them running kiti-kata like a
person wey drink water no wan drop cup – as we say in Naija parlance of a
restless soul on a fruitless journey.
“So, eventually, they found that the affidavit that Atiku
Abubakar deposed to in August 18, 1973, wherein he expressed his wishes to be
publicly known as Atiku Abubakar was signed on a Saturday. And voila!
“The APC e-rats found what they have been looking for.
“For them, it isn’t important that the person called Bola A.
Tinubu was discovered to be the name of a female, nor was it important that
Bola A. Tinubu forged a certificate he submitted to the Independent National
Electoral Commission or that Bola A. Tinubu is the Guinea pig student of the
Government College Lagos, who was used to test run the school four years before
it was founded.
“All that mattered to them is to pick a hole in Atiku
Abubakar’s public profile.
“Like the late Fela Anikulapo said: I be thief, you be
robber! You are also a thief is not a defence to an accusation of theft.
“They thought they found someone else to share the
inglorious stage of certificate forgery with.”
He further said, “So, it was found out that Atiku’s
affidavit was signed on a Saturday, and they went into a frenzy; oiled as a
diesel train.
“They remind us of the 1974 album by the legendary Elton
John titled: Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting.
“They blare and burn all decency. They have found a mate in
their naked state.
“Oh Lord! Atiku’s affidavit was signed on a Saturday! They
screamed. The sound of it mesmerises and intoxicates them. They get around
oiled as a diesel train!
“But because we know the character of the man that we work
for, we knew that their frenzy was all vain hallucinations.
“We conducted research into the registry of the Lagos State
high courts in the same year, 1973, to see if it was really an absurdity to
have court papers signed on a Saturday.
“The outcome of our findings showed clearly that there are
court papers that were signed on Saturdays in the year 1973! Atiku Abubakar’s
affidavit was not the only one signed on Saturday as the corn-men would want
you to believe.
“Here and now, we shall show you slides of our findings. A
practitioner of democracy, especially someone who sits on the chair of a
president, must live above board.
“A president must mirror the moral rectitude of trust and
transparency.
“To be called the president of a country is to be an
approximation of the values that such a country stands for. Nigeria does not
stand for forgeries and impersonation.
“It is, therefore, on this note that we, yet again, call on
President Bola A. Tinubu to follow the example of Atiku Abubakar to clear the
air about all doubts and kuru kere about his past.
“Since Lagos is his domain, we ask Bola A. Tinubu to boldly
walk into Government College Lagos and make available to the world, just as we
have done today, a copy of his 1970 certificate with which he sought admission
into the Chicago State University.
“He may as well tell us, the business centre inside Oluwole
Market in Lagos, where he printed the forged Chicago State University
certificate that he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
“And if, assuming the president is afraid to come out clean,
because we can only assume at this point, that Bola A. Tinubu has some
skeletons in his closet. He should feel free to confide in us what those
skeletons are.
“It is embarrassing enough that the FBI and other anti-crime
agencies in the United States are poised to start releasing information on our
president any moment from now.
“It is more embarrassing that President Bola A. Tinubu will
fight tooth and nail to block those discoveries about his past, saying such
will cause him irreparable damage. Bola A. Tinubu needs to be reminded that
what the FBI and other US security agencies are set to do by releasing the
#FBITinubuFiles will undoubtedly cause Nigeria irreparable damage!
“Nigeria is a country of laws, and no one single man or
woman, no matter how highly placed, is bigger than our laws.
“We hope that this discovery into Atiku’s Saturday affidavit
by his own media team will rest this issue and provide the opportunity for Bola
A. Tinubu’s team to come clean with its decades of forgeries and lies.
Nigerians are waiting for them to put an end to this kindergarten Tom and Jerry
that has done nothing but brought embarrassment and humiliation to our country
and its people.”
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