What Now, Atiku? By Jesutega Onokpasa
WHAT NOW, ATIKU?
By JESUTEGA ONOKPASA
I just saw a typically idiotic tweet by former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar, in which he continues his wholesale disgrace of his own self, apparently under the delusion that he’s embarrassing his President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his supposed country, Nigeria.
Perhaps, because he’s not a very bright man, Alhaji Abubarkar might not realise that the sort of thing he and his minions are up to with his truly nauseating spin on the recent deposition by the Chicago State University is highly irritating to lawyers, generally, but especially to judges because he is basically trying to gaslight persons who are his intellectual superiors with complete irrelevances, yet expecting them to nevertheless fall for his most insolent attempt to scam them.
This most shameful strategy of totally beating about the bush but hoping people who truly know their onions will still end up buying the utter rubbish you’re trying to sell is precisely how the likes of Livy Uzuokwu, SAN, Chris Uche, SAN, and Mike Ozekhome, SAN, ended up being effectively scolded like little schoolboys by the Presidential Election Petition Court.
I understand why non-lawyers might not immediately get it but all this kindergarten talk of primary school and whatever else are entirely irrelevant before a court of law.
What is germane is whether President Tinubu graduated from Chicago State University, therefore meets (actually supercedes) the minimum requirement to run for President.
Of course, what really led Atiku all the way to Chicago was to prove that Bola Tinubu submitted a forged diploma to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Unfortunately for Atiku (and that is quite apart from the inadmissibility before the Supreme Court of Nigeria of whatever utter crap the utter clown might think he “discovered” in America), Chicago State University has deposed that IT IS NOT EVEN POSSIBLE TO FORGE THEIR DIPLOMAS because the context cannot even arise in the first place, and that this is because their diplomas are ceremonial documents, copies of which they do not keep and are unable to either authenticate or disavow!
In short, Chicago State University says it is of no moment to them whether anyone in this world is brandishing their diploma or not but that what they can say is whether such person GRADUATED from their university or not.
They deposed that President Tinubu did and that’s the end of the matter.
In case the likes of Peter Obi, Osita Chidoka, Dele Momodu, Phrank Shuaibu, Anthony Ehilebor and all the other pathetic noisemakers out there still do not understand, I would implore my brother, Reno Omokri, to kindly explain to them that to Chicago State University, their own diplomas are, in specie, of no more importance than their academic gowns.
I don’t pity Atiku Abubarkar even though I know I should pity him because he is a truly pitiable man.
Onokpasa, a lawyer, was a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, and writes from Abuja.
