The legal team of Atiku Abubakar has highlighted five issues with the academic records of President Bola Tinubu as released by the Chicago State University, CSU. Atiku, Nigeria’s former vice-president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general election, asked CSU to release the documents over suspicions that Tinubu forged the certificate he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that qualified him to run for the election. At...

Nigeria’s ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC, has said Atiku Abubakar’s quest to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s election indicates his “deep animosity” towards Tinubu. The party said Atiku’s desperation to see Tinubu unseated is because of his unrealised dream of becoming the president of Nigeria. Read the party’s full press statement, signed by Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the APC, titled “Yet Again, Atiku Abubakar Beats His Tattered Drum of Shame” below: The All...

Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar hosted a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 5, amid the fierce legal battle between him and President Bola Tinubu over the latter’s certificate scandal. The Chicago State University, CSU, has since released Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku’s lawyers. Atiku hopes to use the documents in his appeal against the affirmation of Tinubu’s election by the presidential election tribunal. Below is the full text of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate’s address. Gentlemen...

Nigeria’s minister for foreign affairs, Yusuf Tuggar has said the Nigerian government is not interested in the controversy about President Bola Tinubu’s academic records from the Chicago State University (CSU). The Minister said the Tinubu administration does not have time to waste on such “frivolous issues.” While speaking on Channels TV Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, Tuggar said that Nigerians should show more concern about the prevailing economic travails rather than waste time “about some...