Atiku Petitions BBC Top Management Over Report On Tinubu’s Certificate

THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 25th February 2023 election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has petitioned the top management of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over a recent report wherein the broadcaster concluded there was no evidence President Bola Ahmed Tinunu forged his Chicago State University credentials.

Eighteen-Eleven Media reports that there has been a raging controversy regarding the certificate submitted by President Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of this year’s elections.  

However, Phrank Shaibu, a Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar said that the Atiku team has petitioned the BBC over the report on Tinubu’s certificate.

In a report titled “Bola Tinubu Diploma: No Evidence Nigeria’s President Forged College Record”, BBC analyzed the controversy surrounding the certificate President Tinubu submitted to INEC, saying there is no evidence that the president forged the certificate.

But during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, Shaibu said the matter had been taken up with the BBC’s top management.

“When they said a report by the BBC, I laughed at the level of pedestrianism. 

“The three young people who wrote that report are not even in the employment of the BBC. They are just like a fact-checking team. 

“Let me take one of the authors of that report, Olaronke Alo. As of 2019, he was a reporter and presenter at TVC owned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“We don’t need the services of a clairvoyant to know how the stories were put together. 

“The first paragraph will tell you they got the certified true copy of the position from Frank Shaibu. One of the reporters asked me for it and I sent it to her.

“The same report claims that when they tried to reach the Atiku media team, we did not respond. 

“This we have taken up with the top management and we have written a petition to the BBC because they allowed their platform to be used for a hatched job like this.”

Eighteen-Eleven Media