Atiku urges Tinubu to be honest about academic records

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has taken another swipe at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, questioning his primary and secondary school education claims.

Atiku made this known via his X (formerly Twitter) verified account, yesterday.

“I woke up this morning wondering how we got to this cul de sac. In 1999, Tinubu claimed he attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos, before proceeding to Children’s Home School in Ibadan.

“According to him, his next port of call in his educational journey was Government College Ibadan and Richard Daley College and Chicago State University in the United States.

“Curiously, in 2023, Tinubu settled with attending only Chicago State University in the United States,” he tweeted.

Atiku added: “I am scratching my head. How is that possible? Methinks that all well-meaning Nigerians should be as confused as I am with Tinubu’s declaration that he had no primary and secondary education, yet he has a university degree.

“You may wish to #AskTinubu how he attained this feat, so that we can learn from his ingenuity.”

Atiku had recently filed a separate case, No. 23-5099 (N. D. III.), in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Tinubu in the United States.

This is different from the suit requesting the academic records of Tinubu, which read that he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the Chicago State University.

Meanwhile, Angela Liu, counsel to Atiku in the U.S., said Chicago State University has provided two similar certificates indicating Tinubu attended its institution.

Liu said while the first certificate was signed by three people, the other was signed by two individuals.

She was speaking at the weekend in response to a submission by Tinubu’s lawyers.

According to filings by Oluwole Afolabi and Christopher Carmichael, counsel to Tinubu, an unidentified clerk of the university made the error about the date the school stated on his recently-issued certificate, thereby creating “the appearance of differences.”

Liu said while one document asserts that Tinubu was issued the certificate on June 22, 1979, another suggests that the President received the degree on June 27, 1979.