Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to ask President Bola Tinubu how he got into Chicago State University (CSU) in the United States without primary or secondary school education.
Atiku posed the question in a post on X, formerly known on Twitter, on Sunday.
The former Vice President is currently contesting the outcome of the February 25 presidential election at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
He has also approached a court in the United States, asking the court to compel CSU to turn over records of Tinubu’s time in the school to him.
In his Sunday post, Atiku said Tinubu claimed to have attended some primary and secondary schools when he vied for the governorship of Lagos in 1999 but curiously omitted those schools in his submission to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
He said Nigerians deserved to know why.
“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 and, 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?
“Methinks 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.
“You may wish to #AskTinubu how he attained this feat so that we can learn from his ingenuity😆,” Atiku wrote.