President Bola Tinubu‘s attempt to prevent Atiku Abubakar from obtaining his academic records at Chicago State University (CSU) hits the rock.
This comes amidst the PDP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections’ attempt to dig information on his counterpart who was announced the winner of the election.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order for CSU to provide Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku by the latest date of Tuesday, October 3, 2023.
Previously, President Tinubu had objected to the ruling of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jefferey Gilbert, who, on September 20, 2023, had directed Chicago State University to release Tinubu’s academic records in response to Atiku’s request.
Tinubu argued that Atiku’s interest in his educational records amounted to an invasion of his privacy. However, the presiding judge, Nancy Maldonado, dismissed President Tinubu’s objection.
Judge Maldonado explained that Atiku’s interest in obtaining the requested records outweighed Tinubu’s privacy concerns. She upheld Judge Gilbert’s ruling from September 20, noting that CSU had not raised any objections to making the academic records public.
Judge Maldonado also ordered that Chicago State University must complete all necessary filings related to the release by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
The court stated, “Atiku’s application is therefore granted. In light of the pending Supreme Court of Nigeria deadline. represented to the Court as October 5, 2023, and based on CSU’s representations that it is ready to comply with the discovery requests and produce a witness, the Court sets an expedited schedule for completion of discovery. Respondent CSU is directed to produce all relevant and non-privileged documents.
“The Rule 30(b)(6) deposition of CSU’s corporate designee must be completed by 5:00 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Given the October 5, 2023, filing deadline before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Court will not extend or modify these deadlines.”
7 Responses
All this is just a waste of time the previous presendent was accuse of this same act but wat does that resulted to abeg make we leave this country na, dis just rubbish
All this won’t see the light of the day trust me, Tinubu is playing a mind game with so called politicians.
All this is just a waste of time the previous presendent was accuse of this same act but wat does that resulted to abeg make we leave this country na padi padi
Allow our president to have peace of mind. He has won the election already, why disturbing yourself and peace of Tinubu
Atiku is too disperate he should leave Tinubu only to run his government, I don’t see any reason for him to investigate gate abt the certificate issue
Atiku Abubakar, even if tinubu doesn’t have certificate from Chicago, he still won the election with a large margin. Why disturb yourself?
Atiku has problem, what’s his concern with another person’s result, was he there when he went there or did he pay out of his tuition fee