The Labour Party presidential candidate in the last presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has told Bola Tinubu to act as a responsible leader and disclose his full identity to Nigerians, in order to assuage the barrage of insinuations, confusion and embarrassment this whole scenario is inflicting on Nigerians worldwide
Obi stated categorically that Nigerians deserves to know about his history as he cannot continue to cover his identity which is still shrouded in secrecy. Obi disclosed this in a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday 10th of October, 2023.
Obi lamented that Nigerians are confused as no one can confidently explain the mystery surrounding the identity of Bola Tinubu, supposed President of Nigeria, stressing the fact that Nigerians deserve to know the truth about the identity of the person in charge of the national affairs of their country.
According to the former two term Anambra State governor, the controversy is unnecessary since the president can unequivocally clarify his identity and academic records without letting Nigerians resort to speculations and guessing.
Mr. Obi said,
“I therefore respectfully and humbly call on him to immediately and personally mount the Rushmore of his present high office to perform a simple task once and for all time. He should reintroduce himself to the nation he governed and to the world for the avoidance of further doubt.
“He should let the world know his name, his nationality, his place of birth, his parentage, the primary and secondary school he attended with date as well as the actual universities and certificate obtained. He should indicate clearly where and when he did his national youth service.”
Furthermore, Obi stated that Tinub has to explain himself by himself to Nigerians and not delegate such responsibility to his lawyers and media aids.
“The task is one that only Chief Bola Tinubu himself can perform through a direct personal statement. He must perform this task urgently to lay to rest the many lingering doubts and valid speculations about his true identity.
“A leader cannot outsource a clear, unambiguous personal statement about his identity to political surrogates, official spokespersons, lawyers or any other persons no matter how highly placed.
“A matter of personal identity of a leader is too sensitive and central to the function of the office he currently occupied to be trifled with, outsourced or disguised under the cloak of officialdom. It is about integrity, morality, values, and the rule of law that define the character of a nation and its people,” he added.
Recall that Chicago State University (CSU) last week released the academic records of a Bola Ahmed Tinubu following the request by Atiku Abubakar, in line with an Illinois, United States (U.S.) court order.
CSU officially responded to a revised subpoena to produce documents in the legal inquiry, dated September 13, 2023. The released documents have elicited controversies in the media, as members of the opposition parties continue trading words with Tinubu’s spokespersons on the validity of the results.
The oppositions claim that the President forged his certificate, as what the CSU released is clearly different from what Bola Tinubu submitted to INEC.
The Presidential candidate of the people’s democratic party PDP Atiku Abubakar has already sort the permission of the Supreme court to file the released certificate as a fresh evident to support his case at the apex court, with the intention of having Tinubu disqualified
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