What Atiku fails to do in Tinubu’s debacle – Keyamo
Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, said the duty of Abubakar Atiku is to “fish out” the vendor President Bola Tinubu claimed procured his replacement diploma.
Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in 2023 poll, is embattled against President Tinubu’s victory and pushing to overturn it at the Supreme Court.
He hopes to do so using as fresh evidence President Tinubu’s academic records, which he obtained from his alma mater, the Chicago State University following a United States’ court ruling.
Keyamo said to prove a forgery case, an accuser needs present “a forensic report” that shows alteration of a document in contention.
He believes that so as long as the Chicago State University did not deny Tinubu graduated from the institution, “noise about so-called forgery are useless.”
He said, “It is the duty of the accuser to fish out the said vendor and get that evidence,” he said.
“Unfortunately for them, @officialABAT is as clean and white as snow on this issue and we are again waiting for them at the Supreme
“As for Atiku Abubakar, we acknowledge the valedictory speech he delivered a few days ago signifying his retirement from politics and we wish him godspeed in that retirement.
“Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.”
However, Paul Ibe, the spokesperson for Atiku, said Tinubu’s team are “twisting the facts of the matter.”
He accused the president’s media aides and some media houses of slanting the issue “to justify a corrupted interpretation of the facts.”
“The truth of the matter remains that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, falsified a document he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission and swore an affidavit under oath to back up his forgery,” he said.
