“In 1999 Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT lied under oath in his @inecnigeria form CF001, when he claimed to have attended The University of Chicago @UChicago & Govt College Ibadan. But the attached notarized document proves beyond reasonable doubt that Tinubu lied under oath.
“The certified true copy of his own affidavit is hereby placed side-by-side with the notarised document to show that he did not only lie on oath but forged the documents. Yes, it is 30 years since Bola Tinubu lied under oath, but crime does not rot.”
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If you recall, soon after Tinubu was selected to run for governor of Lagos on the ticket of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), the controversy around him broke out. The first election after June 12 had created a prebendal political environment that had produced Tinubu.
In those heady days between August 1998 and May 1999, every political interest was geared toward putting an end to the transition and sending the military back to its barracks.
All permutations were also geared toward appeasing what was then commonly known as the “Yoruba interest” due to the perceived injustices of the June 12 election cancellation by the military junta and the subsequent death of Bashorun Moshood Abiola in custody.
Bola Tinubu, a senator chosen by the Social Democratic Party, had only recently entered politics (SDP). He was also a well-known ally of Bashorun Abiola, and as a result of their association, he played a significant role in the post-election talks and later in the struggle to ratify Mr. Abiola as president.
In order to lobby the “international community,” in particular the US government, for the revalidation of the June 12 election that had been canceled by the military and resulted in Abiola’s imprisonment, Tinubu, a prominent supporter of the June 12 election, went into exile with a few other well-known actors.
Many others, including the playwright and poet Wole Soyinka, have acknowledged that Tinubu committed considerable resources to that battle on a global scale.
Where, though, did Bola Tinubu obtain all of his resources? Without a doubt, it wasn’t from his rightful salary as Mobil’s treasurer. This was the uncertainty that lingered, and it wasn’t resolved until he was essentially railroaded onto the AD ticket and chosen as Lagos’ governor as a result.
In Lagos, Nigeria, several concerned residents spoke out loud about the new governor in 1999. The accounts he gave in his affidavit did not accord with any established facts regarding Bola Tinubu.
In actuality, Bola Tinubu didn’t exist. A ghost, he was! He wasn’t truly from Lagos, to start with. He was from an area in Osun State’s interior named Iragbaiji. So how did he come to be the son of Madam Tinubu, the Iyaloja of Lagos?
Second, Bola Tinubu claimed to have attended the Children’s Home School in Ibadan, the prestigious Government College in Ibadan, the University of Chicago, and a school that didn’t exist: St. Paul’s School Aroloya.
First off, there is no mention of a St. Paul’s School in Aroloya, and no one at the Government College Ibadan remembered Tinubu. His name wasn’t on the University of Chicago’s rolls, either.
He may have gone to Chicago State University, which was by no means the University of Chicago, it turned out. So, who was Bola Tinubu in real life? The first serious defense of Bola Ahmed Tinubu against what was later revealed to be a case of lies and forgeries was launched by the late Gani Fawehinmi. Continue here: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/11/tinubus-drug-allegation/