Mike Enahoro-Ebah has asked an Abuja magistrate court to sanction the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for allegedly lying on oath about his academic certificates.
The APC presidential hopeful, according to the lawyer claimed in the forms he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC that he attended the Chicago State University.
Tinubu, he said also claimed in the personal particulars (Form EC-9) submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on June 17, 2022, that he attended Government College, Ibadan.
These claims the lawyer said are false according to a direct criminal complaint he filed with the court sitting at Wuse Zone 6, Abuja.
In the matters dated November 9, 2022 and filed on November 10, 2022 by the lawyer, he alleged that Tinubu lied on oath having falsely sworn to an affidavit in support of his personal particulars (Form EC-9) submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on June 17, 2022.
He also alleged that Tinubu presented a forged Chicago State University Certificate to INEC with the intent that it may be acted upon as genuine, thereby committing the offence of forgery contrary to Sections 362(a), 363 and 364 of the Penal Code Act, Cap. 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”
The lawyer said he applied, through his colleague, Mathew Kowals, a Chicago-based legal practitioner, who issued an attorney subpoena on his behalf against the university in case number: 22-L-007289 on August 12, directing the school to mail him (Kowals) all documents and records pertaining to Tinubu in their possession.
The lawyer said copies of Chicago State University Certificate, academic records, undergraduate admission application form, University of Cambridge General Certificate of Education, and copy of Southwest College Transcript (now City College of Chicago) were later sent to him which he attached to the court documents as exhibits.
He alleged that the copy of the Chicago State University Certificate released by the school “is radically different” from the copy attached to Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9 submitted to INEC on June 17.
According to him, a direct comparison of both certificates reveals different dates of an issue by the university (June 22, 1979, and June 27, 1979); different university logos on both certificates; different grammatical construction on faces of the certificates, different signatures, among others.
He said, in support of the defendant’s undergraduate admission application form submitted to Chicago State University in 1977, was a transcript from Southwest College, Chicago, bearing the name, “Tinubu Bola A” which belongs to a female student, contrary to Form EC-9 submitted to INEC which indicated that Tinubu is a man.
The lawyer further alleged that Tinubu that attended the university indicated in his undergraduate admission application form that he graduated from Government College, Lagos in 1970, while the defendant in his Form EC-9 submitted to INEC provided no information as to his attendance of the said Government College, Lagos, among other allegations.
He said it is in the best interest of Nigeria, justice and equity to issue criminal summons to ensure Tinubu’s attendance in court to answer to the complaints.
The case, which is before Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Iyanna, is yet to be scheduled for a hearing.
Meanwhile, Tinubu says he has no case to answer on the allegation that he was involved in narcotics distribution while living in the United States in the 1990s.
In an advert now airing on some national televisions, the former governor said a US court had since dismissed the allegation, to the extent that it can not be revisited.
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