The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday evening in Abuja admitted as exhibits the Chicago State University educational documents of President
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who formally opened his defence in a petition filed against his election by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku.
Through his lead counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, President Tinubu also tendered his US Visa documents, which indicated that he had severally visited the United States of America unhindered between 2011 and 2021. Also admitted as exhibits by the court is the United States of America’s embassy letter of April 4, 2003, which is a response to a letter from the Nigerian Police dated February 3, 2003, which claimed that the embassy had no criminal records of Tinubu in the USA.
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