Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in February, will need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the accusation of certificate forgery made against the former governor of Lagos State, according to Justice John Okoro, the chairman of the Supreme Court panel hearing the appeals against President Bola Tinubu’s election.
During the hearing of the appeals of the electoral petitions brought by Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Okoro delivered the reprimand.
He made this statement in response to the main attorney for Atiku, Chris Uche, SAN, pleading with the court to accept the new evidence that the petitioners had submitted.
Atiku had pleaded to an Illinois Chicago district court to seek the publication of the President’s academic records from Chicago State University in an attempt to overturn Tinubu’s election and disprove the claim that he was unfit to run for president.
Tinubu was accused by the former vice president of fabricating the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from CSU, which was granted in 1979, and submitting it to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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