Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the disputed February 25 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, submitted before a United States District court that there was no basis for President Bola Tinubu's objection to the order of a magistrate court directing the release of his academic records at the Chicago State University.
While urging the court to overrule Tinubu's objection to the release of documents relating to his transcript, admission letter amongst others, Atiku prayed the court to allow the order of Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert and ordered that the academic records as requested in his August 2, application be released not later than October 2.
But, before the order could be effected Tinubu approached a United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, to stay the order till Monday September 25, when he would file his appeal against the order. Additionally, he argued that if the high court was inclined to grant Atiku's application, then the order should be reviewed and limited to only his Diploma Certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission , adding that the court should preclude the release of other documents.
While describing Atiku's case as"a straightforward Section 1782 application", Liu, argued that,"Contrary to Intervenor's inflated rhetoric, Applicant is not seeking"to conduct a fishing expedition into Intervenor's private, confidential, and protected educational records. Amongst others, Atiku pointed out that Tinubu failed to prove that the limited documents he was praying the court to release to him would not be accepted by the Supreme Court in his appeal against the judgement of the presidential election tribunal, which failed to address the issue of Tinubu's alleged non-qualification on the grounds that Atiku raised the issue out of time.
"Finally, Intervenor's unsupported assertion that the heightened relevance of the authenticity of the diploma obviates the discovery concerning Tinubu's election qualifications, including whether he actually attended CSU, makes no sense.
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