SaharaReporters had reported that Abubakar brought the case before the court in a desperate effort to establish that Tinubu was not eligible to be Nigerian president despite his election in February 2023.
Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, has appealed to the United States federal judge to allow only his university certificate to be given to his political opponent, Atiku Abubakar.
SaharaReporters reported on September 23, that Tinubu appealed against the ruling of Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert, sitting at the United States’ District Court of Northern Illinois which ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to release all relevant records pertaining to him to Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
SaharaReporters had reported how the federal court in Chicago, while ruling on the civil case filed by Atiku Abubakar, recently, granted the applicant’s request to the court, stating that former Nigeria’s vice-president had been able to sufficiently satisfy the purpose for seeking the records.
As the legal battle intensified, Tinubu, on Monday pleaded with Judge Nancy Maldonado to block all other details, especially the gender and admission records, among others, of the person who owns the certificate from being disclosed, People’s Gazette reports.
SaharaReporters had reported that Abubakar brought the case before the court in a desperate effort to establish that Tinubu was not eligible to be Nigerian president despite his election in February 2023.
He won the election by 36 per cent of the vote after Abubakar and Peter Obi, who was his running mate in the 2019 election, fell out, subsequently dividing their potential votes into at least two parts, paving the way for Tinubu’s victory with the slimmest margin in Nigerian presidential election history.
President Tinubu’s acceptance that his certificate could be released came after he narrowly escaped full disclosure on September 21 by pleading severe harm to his life in order to obtain a stay of a magistrate judge’s order on September 19.
“There is harm in allowing discovery on issues and documents outside the diploma,” Tinubu’s lawyers said in their full briefing to the court seeking a review of Judge Jeffrey Gilbert’s order by Ms Maldonado, a district judge.
The identity of who was admitted into Chicago State University in the 1970s has been a hot issue after college transcripts emerged that indicated the school admitted a female Bola Tinubu from Southwest College Chicago in 1977.
The issue has gotten worse as his close ally is now pleading
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