APC Chieftain Calls on the International Community, Past Presidents, Supreme Court to Prevail on Tinubu to Resign

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), European Union (EU), United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) and Nigeria’s Supreme Court to ask President Bola Tinubu to vacate office over alleged certificate forgery.

He also sought the help of past presidents and leaders to prevail on President Tinubu to take a dignified exit.

He said the current certificate saga is an opportunity to reclaim the country from the gang of criminals, while calling on several Nigerian associations, including traditional rulers, to ensure that Tinubu vacates office as President.

Frank maintained that Tinubu must not be allowed to proceed as ECOWAS chairman or engage in negotiations on behalf of the sub-regional body because it would not be legitimate.

In a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, the APC stalwart said that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu that contested elections in Nigeria had a social security number in the documents of his alleged narcotics conviction in Chicago which are at variance and materially different from those presented by CSU belonging to the Bola A Tinubu that attended the university, asking that “Is it therefore possible for a U.S resident or citizen to have two social security numbers?

“Date of birth conflict: The CSU transcripts also carries as date of birth the date, 29 March 1954. Tinubu’s submission to INEC is 29 March 1952. This clearly shows that he lied to INEC under oath (Perjury) by the authority of the CSU papers.

“Hence the pre-requisite admission documents submitted to CSU by the said Tinubu that attended their institution, contains information at variance with those presented to INEC by the Bola Tinubu that contested Elections in Nigeria at various times, indicating serial events of forgery and dishonesty both in Nigeria and abroad.”

Frank noted that the aforementioned discrepancies show the Nigerian president is constitutionally not fit to remain as the country’s leader.

He said Tinubu is duty bound to vacate office as provided for in section 137(1)(j) of the constitution which stipulates that no one would be legitimately elected as President of Nigeria if the person has “presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.”

He added: “So we call on lovers of democracy, former presidents, retired justices of Supreme Court, traditional rulers, Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, National Association of Nigerian Students, Nigeria Medical Association, Nigerian Bar Association and Civil Society Organizations to prepare for mass action to ensure that Tinubu vacates office as president.”

He also called on “the authorities of ECOWAS to ask him to vacate the office of the chairman, otherwise, every decision that ECOWAS will take under his leadership will be null and void and will not be respected.

“Under his leadership, ECOWAS will not have credibility to speak on major issues in the continent including the coup in Niger, among others, since his legitimacy has now been eroded by reason of an established act of forgery.

“He can no longer and must not be allowed to proceed as ECOWAS chairman or engage in negotiation on behalf of ECOWAS because it will not be legitimate.”

Frank who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) ambassador to East Africa and Middle East, insisted that Tinubu needs to vacate office as because remaining there will continue to set the country back.

The statement added: “No investor would want to come to a country where its president has been confirmed to be a certificate forger. The present image of the president would continue to militate against the nation’s economic growth until he vacates office to save Nigeria from continuous embarrassment.

“We want to believe that the Supreme Court justices that will hear the appeal on the disputed presidential election outcome are Nigerians and that they are not from either South Africa or any other country.

“So it is their duty to give vent to the constitutional provision that any body who lies on oath is guilty of a criminal offence and hence cannot hold any public office in the country. A president that forged, his certificate is not fit and proper to remain in office as President.

“There is no room for any technicality at this point in time as is often the case because Nigerians and the world are watching our judiciary to see if they would prove to be men of integrity.

“The judges who sat in America to give Nigeria this landmark judgement that revealed that our president forged his certificate, are clear examples that the judiciary is meant to protect the interests of the Law and the common man and not for judges to protect their own selfish interests, their pockets or give justice to the highest bidder.

“Any decision that the Supreme Court takes right now will either make or mar our democracy.”