Mike Enahoro-Ebah, a legal practitioner, has taken the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to court on allegations of certificate forgery, age falsification, and lying under oath.
The lawyer filed three separate direct criminal complaints against the APC candidate at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja.
Tinubu is the sole defendant in the cases CR/121/2022, CR/122/2022, and CR/123/2022.
The suits, dated November 9 and filed on November 10, 2022, were brought under Sections 88(1), 89(3), 109(a), 110(c), and 115(1)(b) and 119 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015; and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction and powers as guaranteed by Section 6(6)(a) of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999. (as amended).
Enahoro-Eba claimed that documents obtained from Chicago State University by his attorney in the United States, Matthew J. Kolwals, pursuant to a subpoena in 22-L-007289, contained material information that contradicted Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9 Affidavit In Support of Personal Particulars submitted to INEC on June 17, 2022.
Enahoro-Ebah claimed that Tinubu had violated Sections 362(a), 363 and 364 of the Penal Code Act, Cap. 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by presenting “a counterfeit Chicago State University certificate to INEC with intent that it may be acted upon as genuine.”
Enahoro-Eba claimed that Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9, which was submitted to INEC on June 17, contained a copy of the Chicago State University Certificate that “is radically different” from the form issued by the university.
He said that a direct comparison of the two certificates showed that they were issued by the university on separate dates (June 22, 1979, and June 27, 1979), had distinct university logos on the fronts of the certificates, and bore different signatures, among other differences.
Enahoro-Eba claimed that documents obtained from Chicago State University by his attorney in the United States, Matthew J. Kolwals, pursuant to a subpoena in 22-L-007289, contained material information that contradicted Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9 Affidavit In Support of Personal Particulars submitted to INEC on June 17, 2022.
Enahoro-Ebah claimed that Tinubu had violated Sections 362(a), 363 and 364 of the Penal Code Act, Cap. 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by presenting “a counterfeit Chicago State University certificate to INEC with intent that it may be acted upon as genuine.”
Enahoro-Eba claimed that Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9, which was submitted to INEC on June 17, contained a copy of the Chicago State University Certificate that “is radically different” from the form issued by the university.
He said that a direct comparison of the two certificates showed that they were issued by the university on separate dates (June 22, 1979, and June 27, 1979), had distinct university logos on the fronts of the certificates, and bore different signatures, among other differences.
He claimed that a transcript from Southwest College, Chicago, bearing the name “Tinubu Bola A” and belonging to a female student, in contrast to Form EC-9 submitted to INEC which indicated that Tinubu is a man, was submitted in support of the defendant’s undergraduate admission application form submitted to Chicago State University in 1977.
The lawyer further alleged that the Tinubu that attended the university indicated in his undergraduate admission application form that he graduated from Government College, Lagos in 1970, while the defendant in his Form EC-9 submitted to INEC provided no information as to his attendance of the said Government College, Lagos, among other allegations.
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