Certificate Fraud: Kwankwaso to Join Atiku in Removing Tinubu? NNPP Makes Stern Statement
FCT, Abuja – The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has filed a fresh ‘evidence’ of forgery against President Bola Tinubu. The new ‘evidence’ emanated from Chicago, the United States of America, Vanguard newspaper reported on Saturday, October 7.
Atiku’s new ‘evidence’ against Tinubu
Atiku, a former vice-president of Nigeria, is expected to present the new alleged evidence at the Supreme Court of the African nation against the qualifications of President Tinubu in the February 2023 election.
According to a statement on Saturday, October 7, by Phrank Shaibu, an aide on communications to the PDP candidate, Atiku claimed that the diploma (certificate) of the Chicago State University (CSU) used by Tinubu which the president submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before or to the 2023 general election, is fake. He insisted that the document was forged. In a motion on notice filed by his legal team headed by Chris Uche, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Atiku asked the Supreme Court to invoke its Order 2 Rule 12 of 1985 to admit the fresh evidence of certificate forgery and perjury in support of his pending appeal before the court to facilitate “substantial justice” to his case.
Respondents in the motion are INEC, Tinubu, and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) as first to third respectively. Meanwhile, no date has yet been fixed for the hearing of the motion.
Cleric makes prediction ahead of Supreme Court
In a piece of related news, The press reported that Apostle Bolaji Akinyemi said Nigerians cannot get rid of President Tinubu. Akinyemi asked citizens not to “expect justice” in Tinubu’s academic records probed by Atiku.
Chicago State University: Kperogi defends Tinubu
Farooq Kperogi, a prominent US-Nigerian columnist, has said President Tinubu did not commit forgery in the legal sense of the term. Kperogi, in his column, stated that certificates are ‘legally worthless’ in the United States. He said considering Caleb Westberg, the registrar of the CSU validated President Tinubu’s studentship under oath, corroborated by his transcript and a former classmate, “that is all that matters”.
