How Did You Get Your Wealth? Atiku Asks Tinubu

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign has bombed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu asking him to reveal how he amassed his wealth after claiming that his parents were too poor to provide quality education for him in his younger years.

The hit from Atiku came after the Tinubu Campaign cautioned Nigerians not to give heed to what it claimed as the sugar coated promises of the PDP candidate.

Atiku, in a statement by Phrank Shaibu also faulted the Tinubu Campaign for regularly relying on negative statements by President Olusegun Obasanjo on the PDP candidate.

Shaibu, while challenging Tinubu to reveal the source of his wealth, wondered how the APC candidate, who allegedly could not complete secondary school because of poverty could claim in a BBC interview to have inherited properties from the same family.

“Obviously thrown off balance when the BBC reporter asked him to disclose the source of his stupendous wealth, Tinubu responded by asking: ‘Are you an enemy of wealth?’  He subsequently told a fable of how he inherited properties and also traded stocks like Warren Buffet. This is complete hogwash.

“Interestingly, Tinubu had told a Lagos State House of Assembly committee that was set up to investigate his dubious academic records in 1999 that he could not complete secondary school because his family was too poor. So,  how did Tinubu, whose family was too poor to send him to school despite a free education policy at the time, inherit properties from the same family? This is obviously balderdash. Tinubu would do well to stop comparing himself with Warren Buffet whose source of wealth has never been linked to narcotics by US authorities.

“To be clear, questions on Tinubu’s source of wealth did not start today. US authorities said Tinubu revealed in bank documents that he worked with Mobil Nigeria Limited in 1989 and his salary was just $2,400 and he had no other sources of income. But records from his First Heritage Bank account showed that in 1990 (just within one year), Tinubu deposited $661,000 into his individual money market account and in 1991 deposited $1,216,500 into the same money market account. Where did he get the money from?

“On the other hand, Atiku Abubakar’s source of wealth has never been in doubt. The ones he has listed publicly include: NICOTES (now Intels) founded in 1989; Prodeco, 1996; Atiku farms, 1982; and ABTI schools, 1992. Some of these companies like INTELS have had reputable Nigerians like the late General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and even traditional rulers on its board. We dare Tinubu to list his companies and source of wealth as Atiku has done.”

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