Breaking: Tension as Tribunal Admits Chicago University, NYSC Certificates Against President Bola Tinubu

• The presidential election petition tribunal resumed hearing at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Friday, June 23
• The court admitted sensitive documents tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar
• The PDP and Atiku, a former vice president, are challenging President Bola Tinubu's victory at the February 25 poll

FCT, Abuja - The presidential election petition tribunal, on Friday, June 23, admitted the documents presented by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The documents include a B.Sc certificate from the Chicago State University, USA, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate, and Mobil Nigeria Oil Plc certificate of service, Daily Trust reported.

Tribunal admits documents against President Bola Tinubu

The PDP had brought the documents through their subpoenaed witness, Mike Enahoro Ebah, who noted that the documents were “purportedly” obtained by Tinubu but bore the name ‘Bola Adekunle Tinubu’.

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Led in evidence by PDP counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), 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 (SAN), Tinubu, Emmanuel Ukala (SAN), and the APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), all objected to the admissibility of the documents.

As of the time of publishing this report, the defence lawyers are set to cross-examine the witness.

President Bola Tinubu’s several controversies

President Tinubu has been the subject of many controversies from the time he became governor of Lagos in 1999, a report by ICIR in 2022 noted.

Years 2022 and 2023 have seen a long string of stories about him, with controversies involving Tinubu, from questionable wealth, ill-health, allegations of certificate forgery and corruption, bagman to drug traffickers, and money-laundering ring investigation.

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Atiku presented 118 exhibits at the presidential election petition court.

Atiku tendered the exhibits to prove his case against President Bola Tinubu.

Atiku’s witness drops allegations against APC, Tinubu's agents

Legit.ng also reported that Abiye Sekibo, a witness of Atiku, alleged that agents of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and President Tinubu truncated the uploading of election results to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) server in Rivers state.

Seriko told the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, June 5, that Tinubu and APC “agents” prevented INEC officials from using the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines to upload collated results from polling units during the February 25 presidential election across the state.

Source: Legit.ng