We Acknowledge The Valedictory Speech He Delivered Few Days Ago Signifying His Retirement From Politics And We Wish Him Godspeed In That Retirement – Keyamo Roasts Atiku Over Tinubu Certificate Forgery Allegations

We Acknowledge The Valedictory Speech He Delivered Few Days Ago Signifying His Retirement From Politics And We Wish Him Godspeed In That Retirement – Keyamo Roasts Atiku Over Tinubu Certificate Forgery Allegations

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has strongly criticized the forgery allegations leveled against President Bola Tinubu by the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar.

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Keyamo revealed that the Chicago State University certificate submitted by President Bola Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission was obtained from a third-party vendor. He conveyed this statement through his official X account on Sunday.

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This development follows Atiku Abubakar’s submission of new documents against Tinubu to the Supreme Court, accusing the President of forgery and perjury, and therefore seeking his disqualification and removal from office.

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The evidence provided by the former vice president included Tinubu’s academic records, which were released by the Chicago State University on Monday following an Illinois court order in the United States instructing the institution to provide the records as requested by Atiku.

Atiku had sought these documents for use in Nigerian courts to support his claim that Tinubu forged a certificate he purportedly obtained from CSU in 1979, which he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2023 presidential election.

Keyamo maintained that all the allegations of forgery surrounding the president’s credentials were unfounded, emphasizing that it was Atiku’s and his supporters’ responsibility to approach the undisclosed vendor that issued the replacement certificate to verify its authenticity.

He said, “I have been a defence and prosecution lawyer at the highest level in criminal trials for more than 30 years. You cannot allege or prove forgery except the purported maker of the document denies its authenticity or there is uncontradicted evidence of a forensic report that categorically says the document was deliberately altered or concocted by the person who uttered (in a legal sense) or issued it.

“Applying this principle to the case of Atiku Abubakar Vs Chicago State University, so long as the university openly said they do not issue replacement certificates. But (added) that vendors do so on their behalf. All these noise about so-called forgery are useless until the particular vendor that issued the replacement certificate to Tinubu denies its authenticity. And it is the duty of the accuser to fish out the said vendor and get that evidence. It is not the other way around. He who alleges must prove.”

According to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, it was the same basic principle he deployed in defence of former President Muhammed Buhari when a similar scenario played out during his tenure.
While reiterating that Tinubu has no case to answer, Keyamo sarcastically urged Atiku to quietly bow out of politics.

“This is the simple principle I laid down in 2019 during our defence of President Buhari that has been so mischievously celebrated as if they have hit the bull’s eye. Unfortunately for them, Tinubu is as clean and white as snow on this issue and we are again waiting for them at the Supreme Court.

“As for Atiku Abubakar (the famed SPV king and the one who disgraced Nigeria internationally with the money-laundering case involving Congressman William Jefferson), we acknowledge the valedictory speech he delivered a few days ago signifying his retirement from politics and we wish him Godspeed in that retirement,” he stated.