The Presidential Election Petitions Court has admitted
certified copies of the academic and work records of President Bola Tinubu
tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku
Abubakar.
The documents include a B.Sc certificate from Chicago State
University, a National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) discharge certificate, and a
Mobil Nigeria Oil Plc certificate of service.
The PDP brought the documents through their subpoenaed
witness, Mike Enahoro- Ebah, a private legal practitioner.
He noted that Tinubu purportedly obtained the documents but
bore the name ‘Bola Adekunle Tinubu’.
Led in evidence by the lead counsel to PDP, Chris Uche, the
witness also tendered forms EC13 and EC9 nomination forms and the letters
written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as attachments.
Counsel to INEC, Abubakar Mahmoud; Tinubu, Emmanuel Ukala;
and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lateef Fagbemi, all objected to the
admissibility of the documents.
The witness referenced the following documents:
(1) Certified true copies of form EC9(Nomination letter of
Tinubu).
(2) Receipt of payment for certification.
(3) Witness application letter requesting the documents.
(4) INEC’s Letter of response.
(5) Certificate from Chicago University belonging to the 2nd
respondent( Tinubu).
(6) NYSC discharge certificate belonging to the 2nd
respondent, Tinubu Bola Adekunle.
(7) Certificate of service from Mobile Oil Nigeria PLC.
(8) Party membership card.
When the lead counsel to PDP applied to tender these
documents, all the respondents objected to their admissibility.
The witness also tendered academic records from Chicago
University, a copy of the subpoena served on the Chicago University, the
original academic records and degree certificate, an original admission letter,
an original transcript from Southwest College to the school Tinubu attended,
given to Chicago university with the gender referred to as female.
He also tendered a notarized judgement of the USA for
criminal forfeiture of assets of Tinubu and the cover note authorizing it.
Furthermore, extracts from a Guinea passport and the certificate of compliance
for Tinubu were also presented.
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