The Disciples of Jagaban (DOJ), a prominent support group for President Bola Tinubu, has called upon Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to disclose the true identity of the individual who owns the secondary school certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Following recent revelations that the certificate is registered under the name Sadiq Abubakar, the DOJ, represented by its national coordinator, Abdulhakeem Alawuje, has issued this challenge.
Alawuje also emphasized that Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, Atiku’s former spokesperson who authored a book about him, never made any reference to the former Vice President being known as Sadiq Abubakar at any point in his life.
The DOJ leader pointed out that if Adinoyi-Ojo, in his book titled ‘The Atiku: The Story of Atiku Abubakar,’ could trace Atiku’s name back to primary school and reveal it as ‘Atiku Kojoli,’ why didn’t he mention that Atiku’s name was Sadiq Abubakar during his secondary school years?”
According to Alawuje, “Atiku Abubakar was never identified as Sidiq Abubakar, at least up till when he entered secondary school. This very much was corroborated by his then spokesperson, late Onukaba
According to him, Atiku identified as Atiku Kojoli during his primary education at Jada Primary School and only substituted Kojoli with Abubakar to read ATIKU ABUBAKAR after gaining admission at Adamawa Provincial Secondary School in Yola.
He said: “At what point did the new name “Atiku Abubakar” change to “Sidiq Abubakar” which is the name written on the WAEC certificate presented to INEC and when did “Sidiq Abubakar” change back to Atiku Abubakar, which is now his current and official name?
“The honest question here is; who is the Sidiq Abubakar that owns the WAEC certificate presented to INEC? Is it the same Atiku Kojoli/Atiku Abubakar or someone else?
“I have read arguments that anybody who identifies as Abubakar can also identify as Sidiq. This can be very true, but if it’s not your official name, it is not your official name.
“Besides, I didn’t see anywhere Adinoyi Onukaba Ojo referred to Atiku as Sidiq in his book. He referred to him as either Atiku Kojoli or Atiku Abubakar. If you have read the book and you saw where he was referred to as Sidiq, please tell me the page.”
