A legal practitioner, Mike Enahoro-Ebah, who is based in Abuja, has launched a fresh legal action against APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and he has again, raised allegations of certificate forgery, falsification of age and lying on oath.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned the lawyer had done this through three separate direct criminal complaints filed at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, it has Mike as complainant and Tinubu as sole defendant in the cases marked: CR/121/2022, CR/122/2022 and CR/123/2022 respectively.
The suits that were dated November 9 and filed on November 10, 2022 by the lawyer himself were brought pursuant to sections 88(1), 89(3), 109(a), 110(c) and 115(1)(b) and 119 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015; under the inherent jurisdiction and powers of the court secured by Section 6(6)(a) of the Nigerian Constitution,1999 (as amended).
Mike alleged that the documents gotten from the Chicago State University by his attorney in the United States, Matthew J. Kolwals through a subpoena in 22-L-007289, contained information that contradicts the material information provided by Tinubu in his sworn Form EC-9 Affidavit In Support of Personal Particulars submitted to INEC on June 17, 2022.
In case number: CR/121/2022, the lawyer alleged that the APC presidential candidate submitted ‘a forged Chicago State University certificate’ to INEC with intent that it may be acted upon as genuine, thereby committing the offence of forgery contrary to Sections 362(a), 363 and 364 of the Penal Code Act, Cap. 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Mike also alleged that the copy of the Chicago State University Certificate released by the school ‘is radically different’ from the copy attached to Tinubu’s sworn Form EC-9 submitted to INEC on June 17.
He noted that a direct comparison of both certificates revealed different dates of issue by the university (June 22, 1979 and June 27, 1979); different university logo on both certificates; different grammatical construction on faces of the certificates, different signatures, among others.
The lawyer also said that in support of Tinubu’s undergraduate admission application form submitted to Chicago State University in 1977, was a transcript from Southwest College, Chicago, bearing the name, ‘Tinubu Bola A’ which belongs to a female student, contrary to Form EC-9 submitted to INEC which indicated that Tinubu is a man.
He further alleged that the Tinubu that attended the university indicated in his undergraduate admission application form that he graduated from the Government College, Lagos in 1970, while in his Form EC-9 submitted to INEC he provided no information as to his attendance of the said Government College, Lagos, among other allegations.
It was gathered that no hearing date has been fixed in respect of the case- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
