One of President Bola Tinubu’s attorneys, Oluwole Afolabi has poured cold water on Atiku Abubakar’s Chicago court victory, saying it is of no use in Atiku’s Supreme Court appeal against Tinubu’s election.

In a WhatsApp note on the implication of the ruling by Judge Nancy Maldonado, Afolabi said:

“The Electoral Act does not allow for the introduction of new evidence on appeal.

"A party must provide a list of the documents he intends to rely on at the time his Petition is filed.

"A party cannot spring surprise on his adversary by introducing evidence that was not filed along with the Petition.”

Tinubu’s personal lawyer, Senior advocate of Nigeria Babatunde Ogala also said whatever document Atiku gets from the Chicago State University is no longer useful.

"The headless mob is masturbating over nothing. The documents can no longer be used. It is of no value. We have passed that stage”.

Ogala broke down the requests of Atiku to CSU, some of which the school already gave to the the Presidential Election Petition Court before its 6 September judgment, in which it dismissed Atiku and Peter Obi’s petitions.

"One is whether President Tinubu attended Chicago State University. The answer is yes. Second, what were his grades in school? The school had already provided that”.

He said the school however objected to releasing Tinubu’s other electronic records covered by the privacy law in the United States.

Judge Nancy Maldonado on Saturday upheld the judgment of Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert in ordering Chicago State University to release President Bola Tinubu’s records to Atiku Abubakar.

Judge Maldonado made the ruling on Saturday, according to the docket posted by the District Court of the Northern District of Illinois.

This in effect means that President Tinubu’s appeal to stop the release of the documents had failed.

The Chicago State University will now proceed this week to release relevant non-privileged documents on Monday 2 October.

The deposition by CSU will take place on Tuesday 3 October.

Judge Maldonado in the 33 page ruling stated: “The court overrules President Tinubu’s objections to Magistrate Judge Gilbert’s recommended ruling and therefore adopts the ruling in full.

“Mr Abubakar’s application is therefore granted.

“In light of the pending Supreme Court of Nigeria deadline, represented to the court as October 5, 2023 and based on CSU’s representations that it is ready to comply with the discovery requests and produce a witness, the court sets an expedited schedule for completion of discovery.

“Respondent CSU is directed to produce all relevant and non-privileged documents in response to requests for Production Nos-1 through 4( as narrowed by Judge Gilbert and adopted here) in Mr. Abubakar’s subpoena by 12.00p.m(noon) CDT on Monday October 2, 2023. The Rule 30(b)( 6) deposition of CSU’s corporate designeee must be completed by 5.00pm CDT on Tuesday October 3, 2023.

“Given the October 5, 2023 filing deadline before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the court will not extend or modify these deadlines”.

killsmith:
Are you admitting the allegations of identity theft to be true?

ganisucks:
Irrespective of what the release of the results may reveal, Tinubu will not be scarred by it. But President Tinubu should see this as a reason to extend an olive branch to the opposition and the various stakeholders.
First he should remove Cardozo as the CBN chief and give the cabal it's right of selecting the individual they want. Wale Edun and Dele Alake too must be replaced.

Second, he should discontinue with the planned release of the findings of the CBN inquiry.

Third, after some months, he should order the EFCC to begin an investigation into the activities of the inquiry team and especially zero-in on the special investigator, Jim Obazee. He should make sure this man gets at least five years with hard labour.

If he does a few of these and more, things might begin to look up for his administration.

Crimecity:


I tire oo.

Look at the way they're happy over identity theft allegation.

jerk:
Let it be out first at least we will see his open yansh.
Imagine a president with a fake results and fake names.
I trust our youths and the exposure the internet has given us. Even to travel outside Nigeria will be a nightmare because they will start from the airport to disgrace him with placards of an identity theft.
We will make sure he resign or choke for that seat.
He will be disgraced to the point that even those close to him will start avoiding him.

Throwback:


Tinubu owes no adversary any Olive branch at this stage.

They have done their worst despite losing the vote. Tinubu has been patient with them and let them dance naked in the market square.

It will son be Tinubu's turn to show them what it means to be in POWER.

You see how Bukola Saraki was reduced to a mere regular Nigerian citizen who does not even have any political ally in any political office even at the local government level, that is what will be shown and not olives.

Throwback:


Tinubu owes no adversary any Olive branch at this stage.

They have done their worst despite losing the vote. Tinubu has been patient with them and let them dance naked in the market square.

It will son be Tinubu's turn to show them what it means to be in POWER.

You see how Bukola Saraki was reduced to a mere regular Nigerian citizen who does not even have any political ally in any political office even at the local government level, that is what will be shown and not olives.

Throwback:


You mean your imaginary identity theft that the school has debunked many times?

Throwback:


Hahahahahaha!

Enemies who put their life on hold like this guy would soon realise he could have made better use of his time.

Obi your Igbo god would never achieve what Tinubu achieved academically with is 1st class degree, no matter how many sandwich courses he attended later in his life and deliberately avoided going for a Masters degree so he will not struggle to pass again.

Obi will never achieve what Tinubu achieved in Politics - creating his own party, building it to national spread, sacking a sitting President, installing a 2 term president, and finally becoming a President himself.

You just have to deal with the reality of your failures.

You sons of Nzeribe failed to prevent the Yoruba from becoming President.

ganisucks:
Irrespective of what the release of the results may reveal, Tinubu will not be scarred by it. But President Tinubu should see this as a reason to extend an olive branch to the opposition and the various stakeholders.
First he should remove Cardozo as the CBN chief and give the cabal it's right of selecting the individual they want. Wale Edun and Dele Alake too must be replaced.

Second, he should discontinue with the planned release of the findings of the CBN inquiry.

Third, after some months, he should order the EFCC to begin an investigation into the activities of the inquiry team and especially zero-in on the special investigator, Jim Obazee. He should make sure this man gets at least five years with hard labour.

If he does a few of these and more, things might begin to look up for his administration.