The court had, on Saturday, ordered the CSU to release the academic records of Tinubu to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu's main challenger in the 2023 general elections.
The president had said releasing the documents with deposition would cause him severe harm because they were private to him and would not be admissible in the ongoing petition against him in Nigeria. CSU, in a certificate of service signed by its counsel, Michael D. Hayes, stated that:"I hereby certify that on this 2nd day of October, 2023 the forgoing response to the Applicant's Revised Subpoena to Produce Documents was served on all counsel of record by electronic mail."
The university said,"CSU does not in the ordinary course keep copies of student diplomas, and after diligent search cannot locate a copy of the original diploma it prepared for Mr Tinubu in 1979, hence has no documents responsive to this request. The university also released documents demanded by Atiku on the correct copies of the documents earlier certified by Jamar Orr in Exhibit D to Uwais Declaration and Bates labelled same CSU 0013 through 0032. But the institution said the communication to CSU between August 1, 2022 and August 1, 2023, was not produced because the objection to them was sustained by the court.
She further noted that Atiku made the request for the documents as a candidate in the February 25 presidential election to enable him tender them in his appeal at the Supreme Court in Nigeria in support of his claim that Tinubu was as of the time of the election not qualified to contest.
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U.S. Court Orders Nigerian President's Academic Records ReleasedThe United States District Court in Northern Illinois has ordered Chicago State University (CSU) to release President Bola Tinubu's academic records to opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had approached the court to compel the university to release Tinubu's records, alleging that he forged his diploma certificate. The court dismissed Tinubu's objections to the release of the records, saying that Atiku has the right to have access to them. Atiku argues that this goes to the root of Tinubu's qualification to contest the last presidential election. Although Atiku lost his case against Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Court in early September, he is appealing the decision to the Supreme Court. He hopes to use the CSU records to support his argument that Tinubu forged his diploma. Atiku and Labour Party candidate Peter Obi have both rejected the September 6, 2023 court judgment declaring Tinubu Nigeria's duly elected president. They have both filed appeals with the Supreme Court to nullify the judgment.
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