Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis and Abdulrahman Zakariyau


The legal team of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is planning to file a motion to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s plea for Chicago State University not to release privileged documents in his academic records.

The Special Adviser to Atiku on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, disclosing to The PUNCH that the legal team had up to 48 hours to respond to the motion in the US court.

Atiku had earlier secured an order for CSU to make the president’s academic records available to his legal team.

A magistrate, Jeffrey Gilbert, had last week ordered Tinubu’s alma mater to provide all relevant and non-privileged documents to the applicant within two days.

Atiku is currently challenging the victory of the former Lagos State governor at the 2023 presidential poll and his recent affirmation by an election petition court in Nigeria.

The documents sought by the PDP candidate, through his counsel, Angela Liu, include the record of admission and acceptance at the university, dates of attendance including degrees, awards, and honors attained by the former governor of Lagos State at the university, among others.

But as the deadline given by Gilbert drew nearer on Thursday, Tinubu’s lawyers approached Maldonado, arguing that the earlier decision by Gilbert needed to be reviewed by a district judge.

The request for a review and delay of the order till Monday was eventually granted by the US district judge.

Tinubu’s application, filed by his lawyers, Oluwole Afolabi and Christopher Charmichael, advanced two reasons.

First was that his academic records in issue are not useful in Nigerian courts as claimed by Atiku because the Nigerian election proceedings and the Nigerian courts have explicitly been unreceptive to the discovery.

The second reason given was that Atiku’s request is unduly intrusive because it allows Applicant (Atiku) to conduct a fishing expedition into intervenor’s private, confidential, and protected educational records.

When asked on Wednesday to confirm if Atiku has filed the suit as he earlier threatened in Monday, Shaibu reassured our correspondent that the former vice president would submit the motion before midnight.

He said, “I am sure you have seen his application. We are working on our response. We have up till midnight today (Wednesday) to respond to them. And we will.”

On when they expect the court to rule over the matter, Shaibu stated that “It is after we have responded to the court, that it will fix the date and inform the parties.”

When contacted for reaction, Coordinator of Tinubu Presidential Legal Team, Babatunde Ogala, who spoke via phone from his base in the United States told, The PUNCH he would rather not speak on the development.

“As I told you earlier, I am still on vacation,” he said.

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Atiku is wasting his time

No new evidence will be accepted by the supreme court.

Ikaeniyan0:
Atiku is wasting his time

No new evidence will be accepted by the supreme court.

You've spoken well and reasonably too.

Mehn.. Tinubu is in big trouble. If it was In Nigeria Court Tinubu would go to sleep. Anyway we still supreme court to do the needful.

Hahaha, Mumu Atiku, anywhere he runs to, Tinubu will continue to flog him. He lost at Judge Maldonado's court and has run back to Judge Gilbert, Lol. He wanted court to grant his requests earlier than Sep 21, which failed, he has now filed for a new judgement on Oct 3. He has suffered back to back delays and i can bet that he won't get any judgement anytime soon. Tinubu will teach him the bitter lesson of his life. Atiku and Obi will labour in vain.

Ikaeniyan0:
Atiku is wasting his time

No new evidence will be accepted by the supreme court.

Okay

Nothing will happen, he should focus more on important things and leave Tilumbu alONe.😂

Tinubu is a packaged fraud, a personality that is a scam.

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Exceed15:
Mehn.. Tinubu is in big trouble. If it was In Nigeria Court Tinubu would go to sleep. Anyway we still supreme court to do the needful.

Ikaeniyan0:
Atiku is wasting his time

No new evidence will be accepted by the supreme court.

Posterity will always judge him right cos he unravel some web of lies the president has weaved in past times.Nevertheless,it is still a win-win situation for him. And he is pursuing the case with his money and his time,so how is that your concern.

Usmanovic95:


Posterity will always judge him right cos he unravel some web of lies the president has weaved in past times.Nevertheless,it is still a win-win situation for him. And he is pursuing the case with his money and his time,so how is that your concern.

What webs of lies has he being able to unravel? List them out

Ikaeniyan0:
What webs of lies has he being able to unravel? List them out

His whole existence is shrouded in controversy ranging from actual name to state of origin,source of income to certificate he tendered to attain the Numero uno citizen of the nation.The earlier we start getting right info about these salient facts about the president,the better for us. Thanks

Usmanovic95:


His whole existence is shrouded in controversy ranging from actual name to state of origin,source of income to certificate he tendered to attain the Numero uno citizen of the nation.The earlier we start getting right info about these salient facts about the president,the better for us. Thanks

It's just some of you guys that do give yourself headache about tinubu.

His name is Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Osun state, his cousin was the past governor of Osun state. There's no controversy about his name, state of origin, source of income and certificate he attained from CSU.

Even CSU have come out time without number to claim he attended and graduated their school.

It's just guys like you that have refuse to give yourself peace of mind about tinubu matter.

Ikaeniyan0:
It's just some of you guys that do give yourself headache about tinubu.

His name is Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Osun state, his cousin was the past governor of Osun state. There's no controversy about his name, state of origin, source of income and certificate he attained from CSU.

Even CSU have come out time without number to claim he attended and graduated their school.

It's just guys like you that have refuse to give yourself peace of mind about tinubu matter.

Oga no be by force to defend someone you barely know.Your submission tilt more to the rumored AMODA OGUNLERE from iragbiji than to the BOLA TINUBU of Lagos.The extended family are saying a whole different thing from yours.https://guardian.ng/politics/tinubus-family-clears-rumour-on-asiwajus-background-age-health/

Ikaeniyan0:
It's just some of you guys that do give yourself headache about tinubu.

His name is Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Osun state, his cousin was the past governor of Osun state. There's no controversy about his name, state of origin, source of income and certificate he attained from CSU.

Even CSU have come out time without number to claim he attended and graduated their school.

It's just guys like you that have refuse to give yourself peace of mind about tinubu matter.

For the umpteenth time,is he from Lagos or osun state?