The Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe, has faulted what he called "corrupted interpretation of the facts in the disposition" released by the Chicago State University against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Ibe, in a statement today, titled, "Tinubu’s house of forgeries" said
anyone who has taken time to do a thorough reading of the deposition will come to the unambiguous conclusion that the footprints of Tinubu’s odyssey as far as the CSU documents are concerned is filled with profound forgeries and abuse of administrative due process.

The statement said: "Since Tuesday last week when the deposition regarding President Bola Tinubu’s educational qualifications came to the fore in the United States, there have been several attempts to twist the facts of the matter, which deliberately aim to confuse the mind of the public concerning the matter.

"Some media aides to the president have come out openly to ‘push back on the narrative’, while some media houses, especially one, have persistently slanted their story to justify a corrupted interpretation of the facts in the disposition.

"Sadly, however, the truth of the matter remains that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu falsified a document he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and swore an affidavit under oath to back up his forgery.

"On page 26 of the deposition which is publicly available, the Registrar of the Chicago State University, Caleb Westberg under oath, was asked a simple question that, “CSU has determined that it does not have a true and correct copy of the diploma issued to Bola Tinubu is 1979, correct?

“To which the Registrar responded, “that’s correct.”

Also, on page 27, a similar question was put to Mr. Westberg: “So, CSU, after going through every diploma, was unable to find an authentic copy of any diploma that CSU issued to Tinubu in 1979. Is that correct?”

The CSU Registrar, in his response, said: “We did not find any diploma issued by CSU in 1979 to Mr. Tinubu.”

And coming straight to the specific issue of whether the CSU is aware of or in possession of the diploma that Tinubu submitted to INEC, to which Mr. Westberg simply said, “Correct, we are not aware of it.”

President Tinubu’s supporters and spin doctors will want to force the narrative of, at least, “Tinubu graduated from the CSU down our throat, even when the narrative has no foothold in logic.

The question remains: How does a candidate graduate from a university that you were never qualified for?

According to information in the open, President Tinubu applied to the CSU with a pre-qualifying 1970 certificate from Government College Lagos, whereas the school did not come into existence until 1974. Maybe this should make Tinubu the first man ever to have an anticipatory certification from the school four clear years before the founding of the school.

"Another mystery is that in addition to the non-existing Government College Lagos certificate, Tinubu presented a certificate from another school in the United States that belongs to a female candidate and a Cambridge HSC of 1970 - the same year he purportedly graduated from a secondary school in Nigeria."

The Atiku Abubakar’s spokesman said long before the CSU discovery of last week, Tinubu has had a history of forgery and perjury.

"In his form CF001 he filed ahead of his governorship election in 1999, Tinubu had claimed albeit fraudulently that he attended St John's Primary School Aroloya, Government College Ibadan and Chicago University as different from Chicago State University. The late lawyer and human rights icon Gani Fawehinmi would have succeeded in bursting him but for the immunity he enjoyed as Governor of Lagos State.

"President Tinubu must be a man of mystery. No wonder his supporters call him Idan (a distorter).

"It is our contention that at the heart of the forgery scandal against President Tinubu is the question of integrity and morality.

"If the President would not do what is honourable by resigning from office and saving the country an imminent embarrassment, at least his supporters should desist from telling shameful lies to confuse the public

"Lastly, while supporters of the President are quick to reference his transcript from the Chicago State University as evidence of his studentship in the school, we are alarmed how his NYSC certificate bears Bola Adekunle Tinubu, even when the CSU said under oath that the middle name of "A" was never interpreted in any document in his file.

"Every Nigerian who has undergone the NYSC programme understands that the names on the NYSC are never a creation of the candidate, but the official name that the student was officially known as, from their tertiary institution. Tinubu was allegedly never known as Adekunle at CSU. Thus, the only way to understand how Adekunle was smuggled on his NYSC discharge certificate can only be explained as a forgery.

"Yet, his media aides will come to the open to make a shameful alternative fact.

"It is even more shameful that just when this whole scandal continues to unfold, media handlers of President Tinubu have, from nowhere, smuggled a middle name of Adekunle into his Wikipedia account. The word Adekunle in Yoruba is a house filled with royalty. But in this instance, we daresay it is a house filled with forgeries.

"It is, therefore, becoming very obvious that there is no end point to how President Tinubu and his spin doctors will continue to use one forgery to cover the other."

Great response from Atiku Abubakar team

Tell him what he don't know

Fvck Paul!

Your case would be thrown out in court.

Because you couldn't win popular votes you resorted to character assassination.

Useless Atiku.

Wahala for Tinubu and APC.

Super story!!!

TruthsFM:
Great response from Atiku Abubakar team

Atiku very foolish Malu, they should reserve their epistle for The Supreme Court of Nigeria

Pigstormentor:
Wahala for Tinubu and APC.

Extremely dull incoherent character.

Una go do this Character assassination tire.

Wise people know say 2023 presidential elections matter na past tense and na 2027 be the next koko.

Unfortunately for the candidates who have decided to play the role of spoilers, by 2027 their party will never allow dem again cos dem don too spoil ground.

Hmmm.
What is obvious in all these is the attempt by BATists to foist a twisted logic of what is legal and illegal on everyone. I dare any batist to answer in the affirmative in the following situations:

A) You have 10 million in a bank. It's weekend and you need to treat your wife with 3million in an health emergency. The bank manager says the bank won't be opened until Monday. You get yourself a couple of artisans, break into the bank, take your 10m and leave a note saying you came to take your money for an emergency, then get the artisans to repair all damages and return the bank to normal condition. You've done nothing wrong not so?
B) You have paid bride price for a new wife and even legalised the union in a registry. On the night of your wedding, the bride says she's no longer interested and have no intention of consummation of the union. You can wait no more, your manhood is on. You have your way forcefully after all, you're now legally recognised as the husband. You're still on the right side of the law not so?
C) Your WAEC certificate got burnt in a fire. Since you have a photocopy with your grades for each subject, you approach Oluwole Street in Yaba and engage a graphics printer to design another one for you with the correct grades and every other details in the original. You are still within your rights ain't it?
The bottom line in all these examples is taking the laws into one's hands or resorting to self-help.
For the umpteenth time, this is Nigeria not America, and certificates are a big deal here and not ceremonial. If Tinubu and CSU knew that certificates from US are not worth the paper on which they are printed, then he should have respected Nigerian laws and submitted his transcript instead.
The office of the president is an office that demands the highest moral and legal standards, but we keep lowering it on the altar of politics and tribal identification.
We either want a working country or we don't!!

favor914:
Atiku very foolish Malu, they should reserve their epistle for The Supreme Court of Nigeria

😂 they have already filed their appeal in the Supreme Court of justice

PIG

favor914:
Extremely dull incoherent character.

Can you imagine the sort of monumental embarrassment APC is causing Nigerians.
It still beats my imagination that out of the millions of Yorubas both in Nigeria and abroad, APC could only present a professional thief and internationally acclaimed druggie?
Hmm... things dey happen o.

Wailington.
Wailing thing.
A wailing Jubril.

As I dey pain them I dey us
As I dey sweet us I dey pain them.

This is very sad and shameful. This is not what any country's presidency should be associated with.

This strange man call Tinubu again? Where is he even from?

"You go explain tire"

That is the most probable response from his brainn dead supporters.

Roboto11:
Your case would be thrown out in court.

Because you couldn't win popular votes you resorted to character assassination.

Useless Atiku.

They're looking for technicalities after they approached the election with a divided house and lost

I have been asking: if Tinubu had lost the election, would Atiku have gone to court to query his disqualification?

This is why our courts have low tolerance for pre election issues after an election has taken place.

I thought these people were going to court. If you have an ironclad case against Tinubu wouldn't you wait for the opportunity to prove it in a court of law?
Why do you need to go on social media to manipulate opinions?