- Pix above(l-r): Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu and Atiku
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Massive protests from the camps of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, have rocked the BBC report that there is no evidence to back the diploma forgery allegation against President Bola Tinubu.
BBC’s Global Disinformation Team had, in a fact-checking report published on Wednesday, said there was no evidence that Tinubu forged the Chicago State University certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest the February presidential election.
The BBC report concluded that the allegation that Tinubu submitted a forged CSU certificate to the INEC was false.
The Global Disinformation Team explained that it fact-checked the most widely circulated claims to arrive at its conclusion.
The allegation of certificate forgery levelled against Tinubu has been roiling the polity with his opponents in the last election-Atiku and Obi-taking the ex-Lagos State governor to task over the issue.
But Labour Party’s Peter Obi and his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, insist Tinubu should come clean of the allegation by telling the world the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in addition to “telling Nigerians who he is,” moreso as the US court has affirmed it fraudulent.
Peter Obi, in a statement after press conference that same Wednesday, lamented that Tinubu’s CSU certificate saga has exposed Nigerians to such a public ridicule, odium and disrepute, to the extent that uninformed foreigners now see every Nigerian as a potential fraudster, certain identity thief and questionable character, that Tinubu needed to explain directly, and not employing the services of spokespersons.
Peter Obi addressed the world conference in early hours of Wednesday, October 11, 2023, amid the controversy surrounding Tinubu’s academic records.
PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, to whom the Chicago State University (CSU) had released Tinubu’s academic records after weeks of legal tussle, on his own, had gone the extra mile to file the CSU documents as fresh evidence at the Supreme Court./SHARE THIS
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