Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has received access to President Bola Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago State University (CSU).
The university handed the documents to Atiku’s team.
Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president in the 2019 and 2023 elections, applied to a court in the Northern District of Illinois to get the university to release Tinubu’s academic records.
He argued that it would boost his suit challenging the President’s election in the February 25 poll.
The PDP candidate had requested the documents for use in Nigerian courts to support his argument that Tinubu forged a certificate he claimed to have obtained from CSU in 1979 and submitted to Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the 2023 presidential election.
Ruling on Saturday, Justice Nancy Maldonado, gave the university up till 12 noon on Monday to deliver the documents to Atiku after dismissing Tinubu’s objection in the judgment.
Maldonado affirmed the September 20 decision of a magistrate judge of the court, Jeffery Gilbert, ordering the CSU to release Mr Tinubu’s academic records as requested by Atiku. She insisted Atiku had the right to have access to the records.
CSU presented the academic records to Atiku’s legal team on Monday. The records also include a cache of documents connected to Tinubu’s education at the institution and copies of certificates with redacted names issued to other persons about the same time the Nigerian president finished from the school in 1979.
