Human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) and the United States-based Ekwenche Research Institute have asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, to pursue his inquest into President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) academic records in the US Court to its logical conclusion.
The organisations jointly asked the former Vice President to ensure that his ongoing “citizen’s inquest” into Tinubu’s academic records in CSU is pursued to its logical conclusion in US Courts so as to establish a case of forgery or otherwise against Tinubu.
“That is to say that the ongoing matter in US Courts should be pursued to the end and not abandoned half way for political or faith confraternity reasons,” the organisations said.
The call was made in a statement jointly signed by the Intersociety Board Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi; Intersociety Board Member, Anayo Okoli; Ekwenche Research Institute Board Chairman, Prof Justin Akujieze and Ekwenche Research Institute Chairman, Committee on Genocide, Mr. Luke Nwannunu.
According to the organisations, “The 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.”
They noted that 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.
The organisations also stated that “It is also immaterial if before the end of November 2023, the Nigeria’s Supreme Court “returned” Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu as “duly elected president of Nigeria” or decided otherwise.
“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 bastardization and ruination.”
They pointed out that all of the above issues have also made the Nigerian government under President Tinubu to look as if it is the “government of the crooks, for the crooks and by the crooks”.
They stressed that “To be determined by the US Courts are the correctness or in-correctness of the Tinubu’s CSU academic records including 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 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).
“Commendably, Atiku Abubakar has patriotically started well but must not abandon the matter for political or religious confraternity.
“Like Late Sage and Legal Icon, Chief Gani Fawehimni did, Atiku Abubakar must judicially settle the matter once and for all, devoid of religious brotherhood or political cabal or cartel membership.”
