On Monday, President Bola Tinubu stepped up his legal efforts to stop the Chicago State University from disclosing his academic records to Atiku Abubakar, his opponent in the most recent presidential election.
Mr. Tinubu has now filed a more thorough objection in an effort to persuade the court to completely overturn the order after obtaining a reprieve from the District Court of Northern Illinois, Eastern Division, which temporarily suspended its 20 September order compelling the university to release the documents to Atiku.
Oluwole Afolabi, Mr. Tinubu’s attorney in New York, filed the application, which is based on two main justifications.
First, contrary to Atiku’s assertion, his academic credentials are not relevant to Nigerian courts since “the Nigerian election proceedings and the Nigerian courts have explicitly been unreceptive to the discovery.”
Atiku’s request “is unduly intrusive because it allows Applicant (Atiku) to conduct a fishing expedition into Intervenor’s private, confidential, and protected educational records,” according to Mr. Tinubu’s second justification.
He pleaded with the court to overturn the earlier ruling, claiming that he had previously been attacked by political opponents who had illegally obtained his academic records.
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