I am not your partner in forgery, lies – Atiku hits back at Tinubu

I am not your partner in forgery, lies – Atiku hits back at Tinubu

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar has hit back at the media aides of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for trying severally to liken his public life to that of the President.

Atiku, who was speaking through Paul Ibe, his Media Adviser and Phrank Shaibu, his Special Assistant on public communication, said that trying to put both men in the same category of forgers and liars was an attempt in futility.

The Atiku media team, which was responding to the allegation by President Tinubu’s camp that the affidavit Atiku deposed to on August 18, 1973, where he expressed his wishes to be publicly known as Atiku Abubakar was forged because it was signed on a Saturday.

According to them, the court worked on Atiku’s affidavit on Saturday in Lagos.

They said 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.

‘All that mattered to them is to pick a hole in Atiku Abubakar’s public profile.

“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.

“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.

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“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.

However, Atiku’s camp noted that they have conducted a 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 and discovered 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 center inside Oluwole Market in Lagos, where he printed the forged Chicago State University certificate that he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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“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,’ he added.

Realnews reports that the media teams of both men have engaged in heated arguments after Atiku’s inquest into President Tinubu’s documents with Chicago State University revealing several inconsistencies in his certificates.