Tinubu asks Supreme Courtroom to discard CSU deposition as a result of it was carried out by U.S. legal professionals, not court docket officers

President Bola Tinubu has requested the Supreme Courtroom to throw out the forgery proof tendered by his rival, Atiku Abubakar, on the grounds that the deposition of Caleb Westberg, registrar of the Chicago State College (CSU), was carried out by U.S. attorneys slightly than licensed judicial officers....CONTINUE READING

Mr Tinubu, on October 12, filed a counter affidavit to defend himself from Mr Abubakar’s petitions in search of an annulment of his election victory on the high court docket. In it, he implied the content material of the deposition couldn’t be trusted.

“I do know as a undeniable fact that neither Gwendolyn Bedford nor every other individual current on the deposition is a judicial officer,” asserted the Nigerian chief in a calculated transfer to discredit Mr Westberg’s testimony given in entrance of all of the respondents’ attorneys on October 3.

Mr Tinubu additional tainted the deposition by implying that it was not held in a impartial setting as a result of Dechert LLP, the authorized agency representing Mr Abubakar, chosen their West Wacker workplace because the venue.

“DECHERT LLP referenced because the venue of the deposition, is the regulation workplace the place Angela Liu, Esq., counsel to the first appellant herein, serves as accomplice,” the president wrote the Supreme Courtroom at 4:42 p.m. on October 12.

It was unclear, although, whether or not Mr Tinubu’s authorized staff — Charles Carmichael and Oluwole Afolabi— objected to the venue previous to the October 3 deposition or in the event that they consented to go to Mr Abubakar’s most popular location.

Nevertheless, Mr Tinubu appears prepared to use the West Wacker location as a authorized loophole to forestall the Supreme Courtroom from admitting the deposition as proof of his forgery.

Because the authorized showdown for Nigeria’s presidency attracts close to, Mr Tinubu has unsheathed his personal sword, levelling critical allegations of identification fraud and forgery in opposition to his fundamental opponent within the February elections.

He has challenged Mr Abubakar to elucidate why he bore “Atiku Kojoli” on his major college certificates and “Siddiq Abubakar” on his 1965 West African Senior Faculty Certificates (WASSCE).