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The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has slammed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar over his insistence on getting the academic records of President Bola Tinubu from the Chicago State University (CSU), saying the former Vice President is only driven by his hysteria of becoming Nigeria’s president.
Okechukwu, a foundation member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who spoke with select journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, called on Nigerians to “be reticent” and not fall for what he described as the antics of and Atiku “to be president at all cost.”
While reacting to the release of Tinubu’s documents to Atiku by the CSU on the orders of a US court on Monday, Okechukkwu said Atiku had no moral high ground to talk about the rule of law.
“Honestly let’s not cherry pick, can an elder statesman who vehemently breached the rotation convention in his party’s constitution and the subsisting national rotation convention sincerely talk of the rule of law? For it’s trite law that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands?” he asked.
“Whereas one like most of our countrymen were concerned over the whirlwind raised over the Chicago State University’s Papers, however, the bottom line is the survival of our nascent democracy.
“The survival of our fledgling democracy and the fragile unity of our dear country are of premium importance, especially with anti-democratic wind blowing in our West Africa sub-region…
