{"id":3479,"date":"2023-10-03T05:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:54:32","slug":"revealed-five-things-atiku-planning-to-use-in-nailing-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/revealed-five-things-atiku-planning-to-use-in-nailing-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed! Five Things Atiku Planning To Use In Nailing Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The ongoing legal battle between President Bola Tinubu and his main rival in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, in the US, is coming to close following the order that the president\u2019s academic record be released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A United States District Court in Northern Illinois had ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to release the academic records of Tinubu to Atiku.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The development came after a U.S Judge, Nancy Maldonado, adopted all the ruling of Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S. District Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu had objected to the Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert ruling ordering the immediate release of the academic records by the CSU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the President, releasing the documents with deposition would cause him severe harm because they were private to him and would not be admissible in the ongoing petition against him in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But\u00a0Atiku filed another appeal, leading to the judge ordering that the documents be released within 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Court overrules President Tinubu\u2019s objections to Magistrate Judge Gilbert\u2019s recommended ruling, and therefore adopts the ruling in full. Mr Abubakar\u2019s application is therefore granted,\u201d the judge ruled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Below are the things Atiku sought though his lawyers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">An example of a CSU diploma issued in 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu\u2019s diploma issued in 1979<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Any example of a CSU diploma that \u201ccontains the same font, seal, signatures and wording\u201d as Tinubu\u2019s diploma issued in June 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">CSU documents certified and produced by Jamar Orr, an associate general counsel at CSU at the time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Atiku also wants his lawyers to depose CSU officials about the authenticity of Tinubu\u2019s academic documents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Atiku is planning to transfer the collected evidence to the\u00a0 Supreme Court for use in the ongoing election petition case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal had struck out Atiku\u2019s petition and upheld the victory of Tinubu in the February 25 election, but Atiku rejected the verdict and asked his lawyers to proceed to the Apex court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing legal battle between President Bola Tinubu and his main rival in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}