The team supporting Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, has filed a complaint with the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) regarding a report concerning Tinubu’s educational credentials.

Phrank Shaibu, a Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku, made this information public.

The BBC report, titled “Bola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria’s president forged college record,” discussed the controversy surrounding the certificate submitted by President Bola Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), stating that there is no proof of any forgery in the president’s certificate.

However, during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, Shaibu indicated that the issue has been brought to the attention of BBC’s senior management.

“When they said a report by the BBC, I laughed at the level of pedestrianism. The three young people who wrote that report are not even in the employment of the BBC. They are just like a fact-checking team. Let me take one of the authors of that report, Olaronke Alo. As of 2019, he was a reporter and presenter at TVC owned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Shaibu said.

“We don’t need the services of a clairvoyant to know how the stories were put together. The first paragraph will tell you they got the true certified copy of the position from Frank Shaibu. One of the reporters asked me for it and I sent it to her.

“The same report claims that when they tried to reach the Atiku media team, we did not respond. This we have taken up with the top management and we have written a petition to the BBC because they allowed their platform to be used for a hatched job like this.”

Shaibu’s comments come amid a growing controversy over Tinubu’s certificate, with some alleging that it may be forged.