Group Urges Atiku to Continue Forgery Case against Tinubu 

• CSOs demand Tinubu’s resignation

 Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka

 A group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has called on former Vice President, and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, not to relent in pursuing his case to unravel the academic qualifications of President Bola Tinubu.

This is as a coalition of civil society organisations asked President Tinubu to immediately resign as president to save Nigeria from the embarrassment caused by the exposé of the ‘forgery’ and perjury committed by him.

The group, in collaboration with United States of America-based group, Ekwenche Research Institute, urged Atiku to ensure that he pursues the matter to a logical conclusion.

In a statement signed by Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi and Prof Justin Akujieze, Chairman of Board of Trustees of both groups, they described Atiku’s case against Tinubu as a patriotic citizen’s inquest.

Part of the statement read: “The ongoing matter in US courts should be pursued to the end and not abandoned half way for political or faith confraternity reasons. 

“This clarion call of ours has arisen following textual discrepancies, contradictions and mutilations inherent in the officially released academic records from the Chicago State University involving Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu known in Nigeria and to Nigerians. 

“The matter, if pursued to its logical conclusion in US Courts, strictly on the grounds of public interest, patriotism and selflessness; is capable of turning things around for the good of Nigeria, especially in the area of its international bad image or pariah status.”

They said the matter should be pursued diligently, irrespective of whether the Supreme Court upheld Tinubu’s victory or not.

“In other words, it is a settled position of the law that once a case of forgery (and perjury) is judicially established against Nigeria’s Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu in US Courts, he will be removed by judicial or legislative means as “Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces”. 

“He can also be forced to resign. The call for judicial settlement or resolution of the matter is also informed by controversies generated including “attentive” and “un-attentive” public debates, deep ethno-religious divisions and deepening of the country’s international pariah status; thereby exposing its citizens to international ridicule, character bastardisation and ruination. 

“All of the above have also made the current central Government in Nigeria to look as if it is the “government of the crooks, for the crooks and by the crooks”.”

The group said the issues to be determined by the US court include the correctness or in-correctness of Tinubu’s CSU academic records.

“These include his “Lagos King’s College’s graduate credentials of 1970” which claimed that “Tinubu (as presently known in Nigeria and to Nigerians) schooled and graduated from the King’s College in 1970” as well as other academic transcripts, diploma and degree certificates in his names and their years of obtainment, names of those that endorsed them and their years in office, and the age and gender identities of the bearers of such CSU certificates. 

“Atiku Abubakar’s ‘Patriotic Citizen’s Inquest’ is importantly a follow-up of those of the late Chief Gani Fawehimni, SAN which established that “there are no correct records showing that Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu attended and completed any formal secondary school and obtained its certificate in Nigeria aside a Chicago State University Certificate” (presently facing a fresh round of judicial enquiries in US courts).”

Meanwhile, a coalition of civil society organisations has asked President Tinubu to immediately resign as president to save Nigeria from the embarrassment caused by the exposé of the forgery and perjury committed by him.

The group under the aegis of United Action Front of Civil Society (UAFCS),  said it considered as outrageous and embarrassing to all Nigerians, the shocking exposé of the forgery and perjury committed by the President.

A statement signed by the Spokesperson, UAFCS, Mallam Hamisu Santuraki said the disgraceful revelation by the CSU, exposing Tinubu’s false claims and forgery of the diploma certificate he submitted to INEC to enable him stand as a presidential candidate in the 2023 elections is utterly demeaning and a huge damage to the image of Nigeria as Africa largest country and world’s most populous black nation. 

He said: “If within the next seven days, Tinubu does not apologise to all Nigerians and refuses to resign as President of Nigeria for the shame and disgrace he brought upon the country, the United Action Front of Civil Society demands that the National Assembly demonstrate courage in protecting the image of the country. 

“To this end, the national assembly must not only commence an impeachment process against Tinubu on this sad discovery and demand explanation and restitution from him in ensuring that the dignity of the Office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria is preserved for only the morally fit and unblemished in affirmation of the spirit and letter of the Chapter 6 of 1999 Constitution as amended.”