US Court Grant Atiku’s Request, Orders Chicago Varsity to release Tinubu’s academic records

A United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois has approved the request made by the Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, for Chicago State University to produce President Bola Tinubu’s academic records.

According to a judgement made by US Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert on Tuesday” Chicago State University must give Atiku Abubakar “all relevant and non-privileged documents” within two days

The court’s decision recognized Tinubu’s attorneys’ defense of maintaining their client’s privacy privilege and made it clear that only “non-privileged documents” needed to be produced.

 “This matter is before the Court on Atiku Abubakar’s Application Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 for an Order Directing Discovery from Chicago State University for Use in a Foreign Proceeding (“Application”) [ECF No. 1]. For the reasons discussed below, the Application is granted,” Gilbert  said.

Atiku had brought the lawsuit in an effort to obtain a court order compelling the university to make Tinubu’s academic records public.

According to The GISTLOVER, Atiku and Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, have filed 86 grounds for appeal with the Supreme Court to overturn the decision made by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which confirmed Tinubu’s victory just two weeks prior.

In separate appeals submitted on Tuesday, the two candidates argued that the PEPT decision should be overturned and that Tinubu’s election should be declared invalid.

Atiku’s appeal was predicated on 35 arguments in which he criticized the tribunal’s decision regarding the electronic transmission of results, the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory, and other crucial tenets.

On the other hand, Obi criticized the verdict from September 6 on 51 different grounds.