Following a summon that was issued on him, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, on Thursday, produced before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, a document that contained President Bola Tinubu’s age.
The document, known as Form EC9, was an affidavit of personal particulars which President Tinubu submitted to the INEC in aid of his qualification to contest the 2023 presidential election.
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A former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who is challenging the outcome of the presidential election that held on February 25, had in an application he filed through his legal team, persuaded the court to summon the INEC boss to among other exhibits he requested for, produce the document containing Tinubu’s bio-data.
Atiku, in a joint petition he filed with his party, insisted that President Tinubu had “demonstrated inconsistency as to his actual date of birth, secondary schools he attended (Government College Ibadan); his State of origin, gender, actual name; certificates evidencing Universities attended (Chicago State University).”
According to the petitioners, “The purported degree Certificate of the 2nd Respondent allegedly acquired at the Chicago State University did not belong to him but to a female (F) described as “F” in the Certificate bearing the name Bola Tinubu.
“The 2nd Respondent did not disclose to the 1st Respondent (INEC) his voluntary acquisition of the citizenship of Republic of Guinea with Guinean Passport No. D00001551, in addition to his Nigerian citizenship. The 2nd Respondent is hereby given notice to produce the original copies of his said two passports,” they added.
Sequel to an application by the petitioners, the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court, on May 26, issued a subpoena for the INEC Chairman to produce 11 sets of exhibits.
