{"id":108614,"date":"2023-10-13T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=108614"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:35:39","slug":"tinubus-ex-employee-at-tvc-authored-the-bbc-report-that-cleared-him-of-certificate-forgery-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubus-ex-employee-at-tvc-authored-the-bbc-report-that-cleared-him-of-certificate-forgery-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s ex-employee at TVC authored the BBC report that cleared him of certificate forgery \u2013 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar has faulted the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report, which cleared President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of certificate forgery, alleging there were vested interests in the production of the report.<\/p>\n<p>A media assistant to Atiku, Phrank Shaibu on Channels Television\u2019s \u201cPolitics Today\u201d on Thursday, said one of the authors of the report, Olaronke Alo, was a former presenter at TVC, a television. station owned by Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>A check on TVC\u2019s website confirmed Alo was an ex-presenter at TVC, anchoring Fashions Finest Africa and WakeUpNigeria before joining the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu also said the team of three who authored the report was dishonest when it claimed in its report that Atiku\u2019s media team refused to comment on the story after it was reached.<\/p>\n<p>He said that was a blatant lie.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shaibu, while it was true that the authors contacted him to give them a copy of the deposition which he did, they never solicited a comment from him or Paul Ibe, who is the head of Atiku\u2019s media.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu also said if the fact-checkers were serious in doing a thorough job, they ought to have told Nigerians the date Tinubu graduated from Chicago State University (CSU), the reason he had three conflicting certificates in his name and when he applied and received the so-called replacement certificate from CSU.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu said the authors smartly glossed over the discovery of Tinubu graduating from Government College Lagos at a time the school was not in existence.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the disinformation team of the BBC made up of three persons bearing names that reflect Nigeria\u2019s three major ethnic groups \u2013 Chiagozie Nwonwu (Igbo), Fauziyya Tukur (Hausa) and Olaronke Alo (Yoruba), cleared Tinubu of certificate forgery in a report entitled: \u201cBola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria\u2019s president forged college record.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar has faulted the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report, which cleared President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of certificate forgery, alleging there were vested interests in the production of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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