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President Bola Tinubu has submitted a legal request aiming to block a federal court in the United States from releasing his academic records from university to Atiku Abubakar, his rival in Nigeria’s presidential election of February 2023.

According to the Peoples Gazette, Mr. Abubakar approached the States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on August 2nd, seeking a subpoena for Chicago State University to disclose Mr. Tinubu’s educational records.

He referenced longstanding controversies surrounding the background of Nigeria’s president. Journalist David Hundeyin uncovered records suggesting that a Bola Tinubu who attended Chicago State University in the 1970s was female.

Records from the CSU registrar’s office confirm that a Bola Tinubu graduated on June 22, 1979, without specifying the gender of the student. The connection between this individual and the current Nigerian presidency remains unclear.

Mr. Abubakar informed the court that he requires these documents as part of the discovery process to bolster his legal challenge against the declaration of Mr. Tinubu as Nigeria’s president on March 1, 2023, following a contentious election on February 23.

In response, Mr. Tinubu swiftly assembled a legal team and requested to be included as an interested party in the lawsuit. He asserted that Chicago State University might not adequately safeguard his interests as the subject of the sought-after records. His motion to join the suit was filed on August 3 and presented by his Chicago-based attorney, Christopher Carmichael.

The motion argued, “Mr. Tinubu should be allowed to join or intervene because he has a direct personal interest in the records sought, his interests are not fully represented or protected by Respondent Chicago State University, and his interests will be affected if he is not permitted to join or intervene.”

Chicago State University stated that its responsibility was fulfilled by notifying the relevant parties about the application and the attempt to access the records. The university’s stance is that it is not obligated to oppose the application and, as a result, does not adequately represent Mr. Tinubu’s interests, according to the filing.

Therefore, Mr. Tinubu contended that the records should remain confidential under the 1974 American student privacy law. His legal team argued that Mr. Abubakar’s lawsuit indirectly targets Mr. Tinubu by seeking access to records that federal and state governments have deemed confidential under the Federal Educational Records and Privacy Act of 1974.

A federal judge has been assigned to oversee the case, and both parties anticipate an expedited hearing and resolution. Mr. Abubakar argued that a verdict from the Nigerian election petitions tribunal is expected by September 21, 2023.

Previously, Mr. Abubakar had filed a lawsuit in a county court in Chicago, Illinois. However, he withdrew it in favor of filing a more comprehensive case in federal court, leading to the dismissal of the earlier case from the docket. This paved the way for Mr. Abubakar’s federal complaint. While some Nigerian media outlets incorrectly reported that the substantive case had been dismissed, Mr.

Abubakar’s filing indicated that he voluntarily withdrew the case to avoid any perception of abusing the court process.

Mr. Abubakar, a prominent figure from the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), welcomed Mr. Tinubu’s motion to join the lawsuit. His legal team stated that their client does not oppose Mr. Tinubu’s intention to join the suit, as they had previously encouraged him to do so.

Lovelive:
He is well educated.
But sincerely everything is fishy about him. He is not an honest person, very cunny man.

Kalashnikov49:
Na Atiku file suit ..instead make Yoruba face Atiku, they are facing IGBOs. As things stand now, any IGBO that doesn't see the Generational hate and Tribalism from the Sadwasted region (SW) is a certified buzu.

Atiku file case Yoruba demons call IGBOs. This fear and slavery is disturbingly pathetic...spits

The International College of Democracy and Human Rights (Enugu); comprising over 120 experts including serving and University retired professors, doctorate degree holders, lawyers, criminologists, religious leaders, civil society leaders, human rights and democracy activists have called on the Five-Man Panel, Justices of the Court of Appeal of the 2023 Presidential Election Petitions’ Tribunal (PEPT) to morally and judicially ensure that the verdict of the PEPT is tailored in a decided case as it ought to be devoid of “technicalities and political orbiters or ethno-religious biases and divisions.

The group said that PEPT verdict must be such that is tailored in ‘living and demoatically progressive law’, stressing that the Justices must be reminded that the sacred collective assignment given to them by Nigerians is to factually determine the true winner and losers of the 2023 Presidential Election using the laid down rules and procedures including the collected and tabulated results in the FormEC8As and recognized electronic devices.

The four signatory group-coalitions to the Joint-Statement were represented by John Gregg, an American democracy campaigner, Bernhard Wanner, a Swiss human rights campaigner and Prof Justin Akujieze (Ekwenche-USA); the Eastern Democracy and Human Rights Coalition (Port Harcourt), comprising 40 groups and individuals advocating for democracy and human rights within and beyond Eastern Nigeria-represented by Prof Jerry Chukwuokoro and Amadiebube Mbama (USA); the South-East Based Coalition of Democracy and Human Rights Organizations (Enugu), a coalition of over 20 democracy and human rights groups of South-East extraction-represented by Aloysius Attah (South-East CLO Chair) and Engineer Ikenwoke Nwandu (a Computer Security expert); the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), Nigeria’s leading research and investigative advocacy Organization since 2008-represented by Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist-Researcher) and Ositadinma Agu (UK).

“It is also the assigned sacred duty of the PEPT Justices to determine the number of the ‘dead votes/results’ in the INEC announced presidential results from the country’s over 176,000 polling units and have them detached and invalidated. The awaiting verdict must be rooted in ‘spirit and letters of the law’ and not cloaked in legal loopholes or technicalities’. Matters involving presidential poll judicial enquiries are like matters involving mass deaths requiring judicial probes which must find answers as to: who are those killed? And when, where, how and why they were killed and who killed them?

“The Justices of the PEPT must also be allowed by the Presidency including the country’s spy police chiefs and regular police authorities to freely and morally write and deliver their verdict popularly and independently and refrain from moves strongly suggestive of forcing a scripted verdict on them prepared by the presidential “evil geniuses” to be delivered by PEPT to Nigerians and the world. The INEC-supervised rigging of the 2023 Presidential Poll in Nigeria is as worse as the military coups in the Republics of Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso and those going to the equity must at all times go with clean hands.

According to the Human Rights Organizations, “apart from a corrupt judge being worst than a demented man running amok with a sharp knife in a crowded market, he also hides under the cloak of ‘technicalities and political orbiters’ as his ‘ratio dicidendi’ or facts derived from weak laws or legal loopholes’. It must also be pointed out that majority of Nigerian Judges and ‘pro establishment lawyers’ have earned ‘notorious and crooked expertise’ in ‘legal technicalities (loopholes) and political orbiters’.

“These ‘crooked feats’ so achieved especially since 2015 have left Nigeria with the internationally rated or measured status of second to none in the world; to the extent that in international jurisprudential discourse, the growth of law in Nigeria amounts to under-growth of law in democracy compliant countries with international jurisprudential best practices in that killer-laws such as legal technicalities or loopholes thrive and shape the laws of countries with endemic and pandemic corruption under which Nigeria is unarguably and inescapably classified” the groups stated.

BigYash:
Maybe number one in Nigeria .

helinues:
Election riggers are worse than coupists

UnfairLife7:
LOl

Level 12 earn more than 150k in Lagos state government

UnfairLife7:
the principal in the government school i served in Ogun state earn close to 500k. Level 17

UnfairLife7:
government primary school o. I don't think i will advise op to accept it. If it were government secondary school then it's fair. Secondary school that he can get to principal and also get some juicy position before or after retirement. A principal in a government secondary school can earn close to 700k

mokwechineme:
I dont follow him on facebook because i realised since Jonathan left office, he has continued the downward dive into nothingness. He continues seeking attention at all cost. Any topic he feels will bring those laughable attention, he will emerse himself in it.
I havent checked out his facebook page for many months now. The last time i checked then, he was having 1 or 2 comments per post. I dont know if that has changed. He gets likes for his posts which i understand can be manipulated. Its in nairaland that when a reno morkery gatbage is dropped, some infants and mama i'm hungry kids will invade especially when the garbage is about the Igbo race.

In my village in Anambra, if Reno morkery is an indigene no one will know him.

AntiMarxist:
Biafra?

Kek!

That primitive cannibal militia ?

Nigeria just left them before they start crying to UN .

a4cube:
Brown roof with one govt building at the center. Anyway in the next 20 years Osogbo may look like Abakiliki.

MXrep:
I don't know. Check the Facebook page and view comments for details

MXrep:

Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February general election in Nigeria, has said that for the country to enthrone good system, both primary and secondary schools should be free.

Obi said this while featuring as a guest on a tweeter space hosted by @Parallefacts with the captio;#PeterObiliveonparallelfact.

Obi emphasized that the level of development of any nation is dependent on how it values education, noting that the difference between developed and developing countries is education.

He said: “As a country we have Universal Basic Education (UBE); it means from primary school, basic education is free and I have always argued it should include primary and secondary. The most important tool of measuring of development is education. The more educated you are the more developed you are.

“The only difference between developed and developing is education. For me when you save from wastages, the next investment should be in education, especially.

“We need to invest aggressively in education, in health and pull people out of poverty. To me, secondary and primary would have been free.

“I would have funded it aggressively. It doesn’t matter whether the schools are owned by private individuals or government. We will fund them aggressively because it is critical and important.“

Zxcvbnmghtr:
How will Soludo ever say he would win. Prof Soludo has common sense and he is FOOL PROOF neither Peter Obi nor Mmesoma the fraudulent JAMB girl succeeded in scamming him.

On a very serious note PETER OBI can never win.

And the election was far above average. Not perfect.

Zxcvbnmghtr:
Lol..."PETER OBI CANNOT WIN" Prof. Soludo Governor of Anambra state.

jmoore:
Op, you carry comment come join the article. Is that how you copy and paste?

Zxcvbnmghtr:
Very Rev. Fr. Uchechukwu Obodoechina, told journalists that the 2023 general election was marred with several irrguarities.

“It witnessed violence, intimidation, disenfranchisement, vote-buying, logistics challenges that affected the credibility of the election including the perceived compromise from security agencies that aided the activities of hoodlums,”