Certificate Forgery: What we will do about BBC’s report on Tinubu – Atiku’s team break silence

According to Phrank Shaibu, Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, they have petitioned the BBC regarding a report on Tinubu’s certificate.

Atiku is the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for president in the general elections in 2023.

There is no proof that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu falsified the certificate, according to a BBC analysis of the issue surrounding the document he gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The article’s title read, “Bola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria’s president forged college record.”

Shaibu claimed that the issue had been raised with BBC high management during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.

“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 true certified 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.”