Atiku mocks Tinubu over claims on primary and secondary school

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has mocked President Bola Tinubu over the recent controversy surrounding his academic qualifications.

Atiku has approached a US court to grant him access to Tinubu’s academic credentials at the Chicago State University.

Atiku, through his lawyer in the United States, Angela Liu, reportedly claimed that the Chicago State University issued conflicting credentials stating that President Tinubu attended the university for two different years.

According to the counsel, Tinubu’s academic document claims he earned the certificate on June 22, 1979, and another claims the president obtained the degree on June 27, 1979.

Although Tinubu through his lawyers Oluwole Afolabi and Christopher Carmichael, had attributed the inaccuracy of his certificate to an error made by the Chicago State University clerk.

In reaction to the controversies, Atiku in a post via his X platform formally known as Twitter, said he wondered how possible Tinubu claimed he attained a higher degree without any footprint of his secondary and elementary qualifications.

“I woke up this morning wondering how we got to this cul de sac. In 1999, @officialABAT claimed he attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos, before proceeding to Children Home School in Ibadan,

“According to him, his next port of call in his educational journey was Government College Ibadan Richard Daley College and Chicago State University in the United States. Curiously, in 2023, Tinubu settled with attending only @ChicagoState.

“I am scratching my head. How is that possible? I think that all well-meaning Nigerians should be as confused as I am with Tinubu’s declaration that he had no primary and secondary education, yet he has a university degree,” he said.