Phrank Shaibu, a Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, has confirmed that they have petitioned the BBC regarding a report on Bola Tinubu’s certificate.

The BBC’s report titled “Bola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria’s president forged college record” analyzed the controversy surrounding the certificate submitted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The report stated that there was no evidence to suggest that the president had forged his certificate.

During an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, Shaibu mentioned that the matter had been taken up with the BBC’s top management.

Shaibu responded to the report’s authenticity, saying, “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.”

He added, “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.”