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Chicago State University (CSU) has provided President Bola Tinubu’s academic records to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The university has provided the documents to Abubakar’s team.
Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 and 2023 elections, took legal action in a United States court for the Northern District of Illinois to request the university to disclose Tinubu’s academic records.
His argument is that obtaining these records would strengthen his case against the President’s election win in the February 25th poll.
The PDP candidate had requested the documents for use in Nigerian courts to bolster his argument that Tinubu had forged a certificate he claimed to have obtained from CSU in 1979 and submitted it to Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the 2023 presidential election.
In a ruling delivered on Saturday, Justice Nancy Maldonado gave the university until 12 noon on Monday to provide the documents to Atiku after dismissing Tinubu’s objection in the judgment.
Maldonado upheld the September 20 decision of a magistrate judge of the court, Jeffery Gilbert, which had ordered CSU to release Mr. Tinubu’s academic records as requested by Atiku. She stressed that Atiku had the right to access these records.
On Monday, CSU presented the academic records to Atiku’s legal team. These records also included a collection of documents related to Tinubu’s education at the institution, as well as copies of certificates with redacted names issued to other individuals around the same time the Nigerian president completed his studies at the school in 1979.
The document also included Tinubu’s admission records, along with a letter dated June 27, 2022, which verified his enrollment at the university from August 1977 to June 1979, during which he pursued a major in accounting. According to the letter, Tinubu successfully earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors on June 22, 1979.
