By Vivian Okejeme Abuja
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has tendered as evidence, his Chicago State University educational documents and United States of America visa at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday.
The court admitted the documents, and admission letter offer by the university as exhibits as the Respondent formally opened his defense in a petition filed against his election by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku.
Tinubu also tendered his US Visa documents between 2011 to 2021, which indicated that he severally visited the United States of America (USA) unhindered as against
Counsel to Tinubu, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, also made available to the Court all documents of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) which cleared him for the US trips.
Also admitted as exhibits by the Court are the Unted State of America’s Embassy letter of April 4, 2003 which is a response to a letter of the Nigerian Police dated February 3, 2003 which claimed that the Embassy had no criminal records of Tinubu in the USA.
The documents were admitted amidst objections against their admissibility by Atiku and his party.
Apart from the educational documents, the Court further admitted an originating simmons 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 matter continues, July 5.
