The educational documents comprised the admission letter offered to Tinubu by Chicago State University, among others, to establish his attendance and graduation at the university.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted the Chicago State University educational documents of President Bola Tinubu and other documents as exhibits.
The court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani admitted them on Tuesday evening.
This is coming after Tinubu opened his defence through his team of lawyers in the petition by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging his election.
During the proceedings, the president’s lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun, also tendered Tinubu’s US Visa documents.
The educational documents comprised the admission letter offered to Tinubu by Chicago State University, among others, to establish his attendance and graduation at the university.
Tinubu also made available to the court all documents of the Nigeria Immigration Service which cleared him for the US trips indicating that he visited the USA unhindered between 2011 and 2021.
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Also admitted as exhibits by the court is the USA’s Embassy letter of April 4, 2003, which is a response to a letter from the Nigerian Police dated February 3, 2003, which claimed that the Embassy had no criminal records of Tinubu in the USA.
Apart from the educational documents, Tinubu also tendered newspaper publications on several suits filed against him by different groups.
The court also admitted an originating summons of a suit instituted at the Supreme Court by the Attorneys General of Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Sokoto States challenging the educational background of Tinubu to stand for the 2023 presidential election.
The court adjourned hearing till Wednesday, July 5.