President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has two options ahead of him if former Vice President Atiku Abubakar wins his fight to prove that the former’s Chicago State University Certificate is fake.

This is according to Nigeria’s International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) and the United States of America-based Ekwenche Research Institute in a joint statement issued yesterday, Saturday, October 6, 2023 in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria.

The two groups called on Atiku, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023 polls, “to ensure that his ongoing ‘Patriotic Citizen’s Inquest’ into Nigeria’s Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University’s academic records is pursued to its logical conclusion in US courts so as to establish a case of forgery or otherwise. 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.”

According to the statement signed for Intersociety by Board Chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi and Board Member Anayo Okoli, as well as Ekwenche’s Board Chairman, Prof Justin Akujieze, and Chairman, Committee on Genocide, Maazi Luke Nwannunu; “This 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. 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.

“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.”

On the options that may eventually confront Tinubu, the statement said: “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.”

Continuing, Intersociety and Ekwenche said: “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. All of the above have also made the current central Government in Nigeria to look as if it is the “government of the crooks, for the crooks and by the crooks”.

“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.”

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