President Bola Tinubu says that Atiku Abubakar’s attempt to obtain and use his Chicago State University (CSU) academic records against him at the elections petitions tribunal was only a wild goose chase because the Nigerian court was no longer admitting evidence.

In the presidential election held on February 25, Mr Abubakar finished second with 6.9 million votes, trailing closely behind Mr Tinubu, who had 8.7 million votes and was declared winner.

But the discrepancies in Mr Tinubu’s credentials prompted Mr Abubakar to approach the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to subpoena CSU into releasing the president’s records to aid his argument at the elections tribunal in Nigeria before September 21 when judgment is anticipated.

Mr Abubakar had sought a nullification of Mr Tinubu’s election triumph on the grounds of alleged electoral fraud, narcotics dealing and election irregularities at the tribunal, where he also hope to tender the CSU as evidence to substantiate his claims to provide a strong argument.

But Mr Tinubu, in his defence at the U.S. federal court, said it was unnecessary to release his records to Mr Abubakar at this point, asserting deadlines for admitting any evidence in the elections tribunal elapsed in July.

“Furthermore, the evidentiary portion of the electoral court proceeding closed July 29, 2023, and a judgment is currently in the process of issuing. (Exhibit 7, Report of Pre-Hearing Session.) Therefore, there is no indication that the Nigerian election court would receive any additional evidence,” Mr Tinubu asserted in his response to application for issue of discovery on August 23 through his lawyers, Chicago-based Charles Carmichael and Oluwole Afolabi.

The president implied the case in Nigeria had advanced to the stage where all parties are only awaiting judgment and any submission of evidence by Mr Abubakar would only contradict the court’s order.

“Although, Mr Abubakar’s counsel believes it can attempt to submit additional evidence, that would be contrary to what the election court already ordered,” argued Mr Tinubu’s lawyers. “Based on the nature of the tribunal and the proceedings underway, the electoral court would not allow the material sought by the application to be admitted.”

Mr Tinubu’s lawyers contended that the main piece of information requested by Mr Abubakar was whether the Nigerian leader had received a diploma and graduated from CSU, which the university registrar verified in its affidavit, and that the other pieces of information sought were irrelevant.

“The rest is immaterial,” the lawyers stated.

The president further blamed an unnamed university clerk for entering wrong information on his records released to Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah in August 2022 in response to a previous subpoena.

CSU registrar, Caleb Westberg, corroborated Mr Tinubu’s argument in a sworn affidavit, saying the institution’s clerk — whose name was not given — had entered wrong details on Mr Tinubu’s records.

But Mr Westberg was cautious with his words asserting the difference “is likely the result of human error.”

That the school registrar did not explicitly state it was an error but instead used evasive and culpability-free phrase such as “is likely” under oath was a dead giveaway that the school was unsure whether it was actually an error and was covering its tracks to avoid legal battles should the court detect malfeasance and file charges against the institution.

President Bola Tinubu is fighting tooth and nail to prevent public access to his Chicago records

Ofunaofu:
Is Tinubu implying that he never attended or graduated top of his class from the Chicago state university as claimed

Feintline:


I believe he is not the one that got the admission to Chicago.

iSense247:
It’s too late for Atiku to use Chicago university records against me in Nigerian election tribunal, Tinubu tells U.S. court

President Bola Tinubu is fighting tooth and nail to prevent public access to his Chicago records

ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE • AUGUST 25, 2023
https://gazettengr.com/its-too-late-for-atiku-to-use-chicago-university-records-against-me-in-nigerian-election-tribunal-tinubu-tells-u-s-court/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

SpartaOfLagos:
This man is a criminal

He just admitted his Chicago university certificate ain't legit

itsme01:




So we now all agree Tinubu schooled in Chicago

My brother i fear Nigeria politics, no body is talking about scoring highest votes during election again , school has confirmed he schooled in Chicago state university, but .... Now they have shifted to error on certificate....

My brother na the day you join politics and win an election someone will prove to you that you are not a Nigerian



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jconsulting:
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itsme01:


By now I was expecting evidence of rigging in poling unit, witness, Party Agents
..

Somehow it's incidence that happened 40 years ago that they are arguing

bhella10:
Atiku is frustrated running helter skelter along with the Anambra failure looking for a missing manhood erm erm.. sorry Mandate. Atiku will lule home and abroad

itsme01:


By now I was expecting evidence of rigging in poling unit, witness, Party Agents
..

Somehow it's incidence that happened 40 years ago that they are arguing

AfonjaEmir:
But you claimed that PO didn't do anything in Anambra 20yrs ago. Why did you dig up that past?

You see una eh...una don cast

AfonjaEmir:
Go wash you pant..it's smelling..

AntiTerrorist:
How do you sleep at night? I wonder how your life would be in the nearest future. Agbado Ponu.

bhella10:
Do you sniff around people's undies? I don't wear pant

itsme01:


I sleep with my AC set to 20° just as I like it, my life is great because I work hard for it and am not on the internet with hateful name attacking people with different opinion from labour party, while attracting curse to themselves because of Obi


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AfonjaEmir:
Oluwole document forgers
Identity theft merchants
Credit card swappers
Fake Travel document forgers
Fake credential merchants

This kind of act has been in existence since time immemorial. The racket Tinubu used to travel is called 'lo ri ori' meaning travelling with a look alike passport. Using that person's identity to travel. The passport is returned and another person travels with it.

This was before the embassy personnel introduced biometrics capturing.

Yoruba are the people that have Finished Nigeria. All the shouts about IGBO drug dealing, aren't compared to Yoruba political elites being certified drug runners.

Agbado propaganda covers the fact that Agbado people are the.most useless persons in that country.

Tinubu has disgraced even the good omoluabi...

Newton2024:
Don't derail please. The issue is why is Tinubu hiding his certificate?

iSense247:
It’s too late for Atiku to use Chicago university records against me in Nigerian election tribunal, Tinubu tells U.S. court

President Bola Tinubu is fighting tooth and nail to prevent public access to his Chicago records

ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE • AUGUST 25, 2023
https://gazettengr.com/its-too-late-for-atiku-to-use-chicago-university-records-against-me-in-nigerian-election-tribunal-tinubu-tells-u-s-court/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews