Atiku Attacks Premium Times For Requesting His Academic Records

Atiku Attacks Premium Times For Requesting His Academic Records

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, responded with harsh language to PREMIUM TIMES over the newspaper’s request for his academic records and the subsequent report on his failure to release them.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Paul Ibe, a few hours after the story was published on Saturday, Atiku accused the newspaper of a witch-hunt. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election had ignored the newspaper’s request for over two months.

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PREMIUM TIMES first made the request in a letter dated October 3, and when he did not respond after seven weeks, sent a reminder to him on November 13. His media adviser, Mr Ibe, assured a prompt response, making PREMIUM TIMES wait further for almost four weeks before publishing Saturday’s report.

For the period after this newspaper sent the reminder, Mr Ibe and his principal made no comment on the issue until Saturday when they accused the newspaper of a witch-hunt without basis.

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Reacting to PREMIUM TIMES’ report on Saturday, Atiku said the newspaper had no right to conduct an inquiry into his records, which he said were neither controversial nor shrouded in secrecy.

Atiku, instead of responding to why he had failed to provide the documents, accused the newspaper of mischief and unprofessionalism. He also claimed that the story was “fictional.”

“Without adherence to any known ethics of journalism, the Premium Times newspaper went into its mill to publish a story that is neither controversial nor shrouded in a cover-up,” Mr Ibe wrote in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday.

Atiku claimed that all the documents requested were in the public domain and that the newspaper should have requested them from the electoral commission, INEC, and the institutions where he claimed to have graduated from.

PREMIUM TIMES challenges Atiku to name ‘parent owner’ in government.

Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES has challenged Atiku to name the “parent owner” he claimed to be serving in the President Tinubu administration.

“Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should be bold enough to name the person he claimed to be a parent owner of our newspaper that occupies a critical seat in the current government. We dare him to name the person,” the Editor-in-Chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, said in reaction to Atiku’s baseless claim on Saturday.

“It is unfortunate that at his level, he can make an allegation of this nature publicly without any proof whatsoever. Much more is expected from people aspiring to lead a country like Nigeria.”

This year, the former Vice President sent his lawyers to the United States to legally force Chicago State University (CSU) to release the academic records of President Tinubu, whose election he disputed but lost in court.

Source: PREMIUM TIMES

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