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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 (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku.

The educational documents tendered to establish his attendance and graduation at the American University comprised, among others, the admission letter offered to Tinubu by the famous institution.

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 (USA) unhindered between 2011 and 2021.

Tinubu, who tendered the documents to debunk the allegations of
criminality contained in the petition against him, also made available to the court all documents of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) that cleared him for the US trips.

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.

The documents were admitted in spite of rigorous objections against their respective admissibility by PDP and the former Vice President.

The petition’s first and third respondents, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), made no objections to the admission of any of the documents.

In addition to the educational records, the court also accepted the
originating summons of a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court by the
attorneys general of the states of Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Sokoto disputing Tinubu’s educational qualifications to run for president in 2023.

Also admitted were newspaper publications on several suits filed against Tinubu by several groups.

The petition’s next hearing has been postponed until July 5 by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, the court’s presiding justice.

shortgun:
Hope he equally tendered the court documents that indicted him for illicit drug peddling in the US.

"...Put simply, Tinubu was alleged to be a bagman handling and laundering drug money. Tinubu claimed the funds belonged to Kafaru Tinubu and Alhaja Habibat Mogaji, even though, years later, he told The News magazine that all the money belonged to him(crooked criminal ).

In the end, Tinubu forfeited $460,000 held in his name by Heritage Bank, where he and Akande had strong links. “Why did they return $1m?” Fani-Kayode asked.

The biggest lie, peddled by Keyamo and Fani-Kayode, is that the $460,000 forfeited by Tinubu was a tax.The cover sheet of the certified true copy of the settle ment, issued on August 10, 2022, explicitly states under “Nature of Suit” that it’s forfeiture under “Code 625: Drug related seizure of property 21 USC 881.” The two boxes under “Federal tax suits” were not ticked. So, the $460, 000 was not a tax but a drug-related forfeiture.

Tinubu’s surrogates and spin doctors say he wasn’t indicted or convicted. But no rational individual would forfeit $460,000 of his hard-earned money, especially when linked to drug trafficking, without fighting to clear his name.

By having a “drug related seizure of property” recorded against his name, Tinubu is seriously tainted as a presidential candidate, and would cause Nigeria huge embarrassment if he became president....

Forfeiture is a punishment for a crime committed. Narcotics trafficking is also a serious offence that attracts severe punishment.

“A person who has forfeited property on the basis of a crime cannot be entitled to indemnity. Forfeiture is a form of punishment. There is no indemnity in our criminal procedure,” the court further stated in a majority decision delivered. - Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola.

sobhladi:
If this is authentic, he’ll be vindicated on the vert issue

WorldRichest:
Labourers Party is labouring in vain

Bobloco:

b3llo:
This tribunal don dey turn child's play. Whoever is expecting anything different from other PEPT in Nigeria is a joker.

KEVIND:
The only thing i wish to check on that Chicago documents is whether the bearer is a He or a She.
I learnt the original owner is a female ( Bola Tinubu)

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 (USA) unhindered between 2011 and 2021.