Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu’s academic transcripts from Chicago State University as well as a variety of other documents were admitted as exhibits by the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja.
Through his legal team, which is directed by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Tinubu submitted the documents to the tribunal.
In response to petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, contesting Tinubu’s (Tinubu’s) win in the February 25 presidential election, the President on Tuesday began his defense in accordance with the tribunal’s Monday decision.
Tinubu’s US visa was also presented by Olanipekun at the hearings on Tuesday.
Tinubu’s Chicago State University academic documents tendered by Olanipekun included a letter of admission offered to Tinubu by the institution.
Also tendered were documents of Nigeria Immigration Service, which, Olanipekun said, cleared Tinubu for US trips, indicating that he visited the US unhindered between 2011 and 2021.
Also admitted as exhibit by the court was a US Embassy letter of April 4, 2003 to the Nigeria Police, stating that the US Embassy had no criminal records of Tinubu in the US.
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Apart from the educational documents, Tinubu also tendered newspaper publications on a number of lawsuits 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 Tinubu’s candidacy to stand for the 2023 presidential election.
The court, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, adjourned further proceedings till Wednesday (today).
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission also, on Tuesday, opened and closed its defence in the petition filed by the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, on the credibility of the February 25 presidential poll.
At the resumed proceedings on Tuesday morning, counsel for INEC, A.B. Mahmoud (SAN), proceeded to close its defence in the petition after calling the first witness, Lawrence Bayode, an assistant director in charge of its ICT department.
Bayode had on Monday testified in aid of the commission’s defence against the petition filed by the PDP and Atiku.
The tribunal adjourned till Wednesday (today) for Tinubu and his vice, Kassim Shetima, to open their defence in Obi’s petition.
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