Former Vice President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 general election, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, declared that President Bola Tinubu had serially violated the basic norm that underpinned Nigeria’s electoral laws by presenting fake documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Atiku made the assertion in Abuja while addressing a world press conference on the outcome of the deposition by Chicago State University (CSU) on Tinubu’s academic records.
The former vice president said with his successful effort to unravel Tinubu, the soul of the late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, who sustained the struggle for a just society till he passed on, could now rest in peace.
He also cleared the air about his relationship with Tinubu, saying it broke down since 2007, and he had since stopped doing contracts with the government for obvious reasons.
Atiku invited fellow contestants in the last presidential election, particularly Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), to join his campaign “to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality and uprightness” in Nigeria’s government and politics.
LP welcomed the invitation, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh.
One of Atiku’s lawyers, Kalu Kalu, who was asked to shed more light on some aspects of the deposition by the registrar at CSU, Caleb Westberg, said the certificate presented to INEC by Tinubu was undoubtedly fake.
