A US court gave the ruling on Tuesday, ordering Chicago State University to produce “all relevant and non-privileged documents” to Atiku within two days.
A United States court in Eastern Illinois has ordered the Chicago State University to release the academic records of President Bola Tinubu to his rival presidential candidate in the 25 February election, Atiku Abubakar.
The former vice president argued that among other things, a “second Chicago State University diploma has since emerged that bears the name “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” but also presents with a different font, punctuation, seal, and signatures, than the June 22, 1979 diploma, among other alleged discrepancies.”
When Atiku filed his application in the US district court on 2 August, his petition challenging the presidential election was pending before the Nigerian Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Therefore, Atiku said his application in the US court was to obtain discoveries that would support his petitions in the Nigerian court of appeal.
“Those matters instead were raised in Atiku’s reply materials filed in support of the petition,” Mr Tinubu told the US court, adding that “the Nigerian Court of Appeal declined to consider issues related to Mr Tinubu’s educational background that had not been included in Petition but rather were belatedly raised for the first time in Atiku’s petition.”
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