APC reacts as Atiku questions Tinubu's academic background

Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, has once more questioned the controversies surrounding the academic background of President Bola Tinubu.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for the public to understand the academic journey of the former governor of Lagos State unless a clarification is made, according to Atiku, who is currently pleading with a US court to persuade Chicago State University to explain the discrepancy in the certificates it issued to President Tinubu.

Atiku wrote on Sunday under the verified X account @atiku, “I woke up this morning wondering how we came to this cul-de-sac. In 1999, @officialABAT (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) said he first attended Children Home School in Ibadan and then St. John’s Primary School in Aroloya, Lagos.

“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.

Atiku and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, are both challenging the declaration of Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commission as the winner of the February 25 election.

Reacting, the Publicity Director of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bala Ibrahim, said Atiku is a bad sportsman who is clinging to anything to spite the president.

He said, “Politicians have a way of doing things that at times makes one wonder whether they are doing it for the betterment of the polity or simply to spite the system as a whole. For someone who has come all the way in Nigerian politics like Atiku Abubakar, I don’t think he is being advised correctly. He is one person who has faced countless accusations from political opponents. Almost all of them were quashed because they lacked merits, nonsensical and sometimes ridiculous.

“But for him to come back and be doing the same or even worse than what was done to him means that he is dancing to the tune of these political mediocres. It may not go down well, and posterity may not give him a good verdict if he continues this way. He is acting like a bad sportsman.”