ADC Slams Shettima For Mocking Atiku’s School At Economic Summit Instead Of Addressing Hardship

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Campaign Council has criticised Vice President Kashim Shettima for mocking former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s academic background on the thirty second Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, as an alternative of addressing the hardship going through Nigerians.

In an announcement signed by its Director of Strategic Communication, Phrank Shaibu, on Monday, October 26, 2026, the marketing campaign stated Shettima had a chance to clarify why Nigerians are struggling to afford gas, transport and meals, however selected to assault Atiku for attending the Kano School of Hygiene.

“While Shettima debates school records, families are skipping meals, workers cannot afford the journey to work, and his government calls their suffering reform,” the assertion stated.

*“What Is Shameful About Atiku’s Education?”*

The ADC argued that there was nothing shameful about Atiku’s training, noting that he accomplished secondary college, pursued additional coaching and constructed a profession by way of work.

“Millions of Nigerians have travelled the same road. Their parents sacrificed to get them into the schools they could afford; they studied, worked and rose. Shettima looked at that struggle and saw something to laugh at,” Shaibu stated.

The marketing campaign turned the scrutiny to President Bola Tinubu, urging Shettima to clarify alleged discrepancies within the President’s tutorial data.

According to the assertion, a doc in Tinubu’s Chicago State University data lists him as having graduated from Government College Lagos in 1970, 4 years earlier than the varsity was established in 1974.

“Shettima should explain how a man graduates from a school before it exists, instead of mocking Atiku for attending a school whose doors were open,” the ADC stated.

The marketing campaign additionally raised the problem of names, claiming that the NYSC certificates Tinubu submitted to INEC bears the identify “Tinubu Bola Adekunle,” a discrepancy Atiku has challenged in courtroom.

It added that Tinubu’s Chicago State University paperwork stay the topic of litigation within the United States, and that questions raised about paperwork submitted for his election have to be answered.

The ADC additional referenced the documented 1993 forfeiture in Chicago, arising from a narcotics investigation, noting {that a} separate U.S. case in regards to the launch of data from that investigation stays a matter of public curiosity.

Responding to Shettima’s declare that Atiku desires Nigerians to “backslide into penury,” the ADC stated poverty is already the truth for a lot of households.

It cited World Bank estimates that almost seven in ten Nigerians will reside under its decrease center earnings poverty line in 2026, whereas 35 million folks face acute meals insecurity.

“Poverty is not a future threat to these families. It is the life they are struggling through today,” the assertion stated.

“A parent choosing between transport to work and food for the children does not need Shettima to explain penury. His remark shows how far this government has drifted from the people it serves.”

The marketing campaign stated Atiku has proposed a focused, capped and independently audited subsidy tied to petrol refined in Nigeria.

“If Shettima thinks it cannot be funded, he should show his figures and offer a better way to lower prices. Insulting Atiku will not fill a cooking pot, pay a bus fare or put fuel in a tank,” Shaibu stated.

The ADC concluded that Atiku has nothing to be ashamed of, and accused Shettima of selecting to snicker at trustworthy training whereas the nation is weighed down by starvation.

“After three and a half years in the saddle, Nigerians have seen the bitter consequences of allowing a man with a forged education to become President. Tinubu is an error the Nigerian electorate made in 2023, and on January 16, 2027, the whole country will be impatient to correct that error,” the assertion stated.

“Shettima and Bola may be too far removed from ordinary homes to hear the anger building inside them. Those homes will have a voice at the ballot box. Nigerians will answer the Vice President’s mockery and his boss’s record with their votes.”