Politics

Atiku mocks Tinubu: How did you attend varsity without pry, sec education

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has mocked President Bola Tinubu over the latter’s academic records at Chicago State University (CSU), United States.

Atiku, a former Vice President, recently approached a U.S. court for an order compelling CSU to release the academic records of Tinubu ahead of the judgement by the Presidential Election Petition Court in Nigeria.

Tinubu’s credentials show that he graduated from CSU in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting and management, a certificate which has since been eliciting allegations.

However, Atiku, in a post on his social media accounts on Sunday, August 27, 2023, said it was strange that President Tinubu attended Chicago State University without primary and secondary education.

The PDP standard-bearer stated: “I woke up this morning wondering how we got to this cul de sac. In 1999, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu claimed he attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos, before proceeding to Children 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. 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.”

It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on March 1, 2023, announced that Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won the presidential election ahead of 17 other candidates that participated in the election.

INEC declared that Tinubu scored 8,794,726 votes to defeat the two major contenders – Atiku, who came second with 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), who came third with 6,101,533 votes.

However, dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, both Atiku and Obi approached the court to invalidate it.

The duo, in their separate petitions, claimed that they won the presidential poll, as they challenged Tinubu’s eligibility to contest the election.

The petitioners prayed the court to nullify the election and order a fresh presidential election, with the exclusion of President Tinubu whom they argued was ab-initio, not qualified to participate.

The court has however yet to deliver judgement.

The Star