BREAKING: Atiku ‘Attacked’ In Nigeria Over Tinubu’s Chicago State University Certificate

BREAKING: Atiku ‘Attacked’ In Nigeria Over Tinubu’s Chicago State University Certificate

Osita Okechukwu, the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), urged Nigerians to exercise caution regarding the eagerness of former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, to assume leadership of the country.

Okechukwu made these remarks on Monday during a conversation with journalists concerning the release of President Bola Tinubu’s certificate by the Chicago State University (CSU) in the United States.

Following a case brought forth by Atiku in a U.S. court, CSU released Mr. Tinubu’s certificate on Monday. Some individuals have noted disparities between the certificate and the documents submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the president, who represented the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25th poll.

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Okechukwu, a founding member of the APC, asserted that Atiku lacks the moral authority to speak on matters concerning the rule of law. He emphasized the critical significance of safeguarding Nigeria’s emerging democracy and maintaining the fragile unity of the nation, especially in light of prevailing anti-democratic tendencies in the West Africa sub-region.

“Honestly let’s not cherry pick, can an elder statesman who vehemently breached the rotation convention in his party’s constitution and the subsisting national rotation convention sincerely talk of the rule of law? For it’s trite law that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

“Whereas one, like most of our countrymen is concerned over the whirlwind raised over the Chicago State University’s Papers, however, the bottom line is the survival of our nascent democracy.”

He further stated that Atiku’s decision to run for president in violation of the PDP constitution and the party’s principle of rotation, practically facilitated Mr Tinubu’s victory at the poll.

“Let’s not forget that Atiku anointed Tinubu by deliberately breaching the PDP’s Constitution and the national rotation convention which uphold equity, natural justice and good conscience as the armour unifying our dear country,” he said.

Mr Okechukwu asked the PDP candidate “to be bold enough, step down from his high horse and profusely apologise to the entire membership of the PDP he betrayed and his in-laws – Ndigbo, who put all their eggs in the PDP’s basket for over 20 years, hoping that PDP will oblige them their turn in 2023 presidential election.”

He warned Nigerians to resist the temptation of following Atiku’s “inordinate ambition drive to become president to set our dear country on fire”.

“We must not undermine our democracy, which has been improving from every election cycle. Things are hard and agreed, the 2023 presidential election has its flaws, but we cannot risk our fledgling democracy to the windstorm of anti-democrats blowing in our West African sub-region.

“Albeit, democracy we all know is not revolutionary, but evolutionary. Methinks, Atiku’s greed is wittingly or unwittingly driving him to hysteria of either grabbing the presidency by any means or pulling down the house.

“In the eyes of the law, outside cherry picking, Atiku cannot be absolved of infractions on Section 7 of the PDP’s Constitution and the ethos of rotation convention which governed the 4th Republic.