US Court Dismisses Tinubu's Appeal And Mandates That CSU Deliver Records To Atiku On Monday
President Bola Tinubu's attempt to prevent former vice president Atiku Abubakar from receiving his academic records from Chicago State University was unsuccessful.
The situation changed once U.S. Judge Nancy Maldonado adopted the entirety of Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert's order for the CSU to immediately provide Tinubu's academic records from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Tinubu had argued against the decision by Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert mandating the CSU's prompt release of the academic data.
The President said that making the documents and deposition public would seriously injure him because they were personal to him and could not be used in the ongoing lawsuit in Nigeria against him.
Remember that Atiku, who ran for president on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, platform on February 25, has been looking for Tinubu's academic transcripts to prove that he submitted a falsified certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Maldonado, though, deemed the judgment of a lower federal magistrate judge on September 19 to be appropriate and ted it in full in her judgement on Saturday.
"The Court overrules President Tinubu's objections to Magistrate Judge Gilbert's recommended ruling, and therefore adopts the ruling in full. Mr Abubakar's application is therefore granted," the judge ruled.
The Judge also gave CSU till noon on Monday to make the records public and to finish the deposition of CSU executives by Tuesday at 5 p.m. CDT.
"In light of the pending Supreme Court of Nigeria deadline, represented to the court as October 5, 2023, and based on CSU's representations that it is ready to comply with the discovery requests and produce a witness, the court sets an expedited schedule for completion of discovery," the judge said.
Maldonado cautioned that Tinubu's attempt to challenge the ruling in the district would no longer be acceptable because Abubakar was required to deliver the gathered evidence to the Nigerian Supreme Court by October 5 in order to be used in an ongoing election petition case.
Tinubu, though, is free to bring his case directly to the Seventh Circuit, an appellate court that has jurisdiction over Illinois and adjacent states, according to the judge.
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