Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) says Bola Tinubu ,the President-elect has dual citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea.
In a contemporary go well with filed earlier than the Presidential Election Petition Courtroom, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, Atiku additionally accused Tinubu of hiding some details associated to his constitutional {qualifications} in his Kind EC9 submitted to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), which he says is opposite to the provisions of the regulation.
Within the response filed by his lead counsel, Mr Chris Uche, SAN, Atiku stated that his identification, comprising age, state of origin and academic {qualifications} opposite to that of Tinubu had by no means been in dispute.
He insisted that Tinubu was constitutionally unfit to contest for the president’s workplace.
As well as, he alleged that Tinubu was unfit to steer Nigeria having been indicted for drug-related offences in america and made to forfeit a sum of 460,000 {dollars} as a compromise settlement which he paid.
In keeping with the PDP presidential candidate, Tinubu holds twin citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea. He stated that he voluntarily acquired the citizenship of the Republic of Guinea.
Atiku added that he was difficult the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect on the grounds that Tinubu and APC didn’t win a majority of the lawful votes forged within the Feb. 25 presidential ballot.
He stated that Tinubu failed a part of the constitutional necessities having did not safe 25% of the votes forged within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as constitutionally required by the regulation.
The return of Tinubu because the winner of the 2023 presidential election was undue, illegal and invalid as a result of he didn’t meet the constitutional necessities, he stated.
Atiku argued that Tinubu intentionally selected to not reply factors of substance within the petition and opted for extraneous details, contradictory, evasive, speculative and imprecise assertions.