The District Court had weeks ago ruled that it has jurisdiction in the case to compel CSU to produce critical documents relating to Tinubu.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, has ruled that it would hear the case against Chicago State University (CSU) filed by Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku’s application was spurred by an earlier case in Nigeria precisely on November 9, 2022, several months before the presidential elections, in which one Mike Enahoro-Ebah, described as a “Human Rights Defender and Public Interest Litigator” in Abuja commenced proceedings against Tinubu by filing a “Direct Criminal Complaint” in the Chief Magistrate Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In his complaint, Mr. Enahoro-Ebah alleged that Tinubu submitted an “Affidavit of Personal Particulars” to INEC in June 2022 as part of a required filing to run for president that included a forged CSU diploma dated June 22, 1979 and other information that were inconsistent with the CSU documents.
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The District Court had weeks ago ruled that it has jurisdiction in the case to compel CSU to produce critical documents relating to Tinubu who claims he got a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with honours from the varsity.
TheNiche obtained on Sunday a document from the court showing that hearing in the case would begin on September 12, 2023 at 1:30pm.
The court, in the document entered by the clerk on September 8, said that if the university has any objections to the scope of Atiku’s subpoenas for documents and others it should file such by 5 pm on September 11, 2023 “rather than reserve those objections until a later date.”
