Judge Jeffrey Gilbert has revealed why he ordered Chicago University to release President Bola Tinubu academic certificates to Nigerian opposition leader, Atiku Abubakar.
Gilbert is the judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District, Jeffrey Gilbert. He gave the order on Tuesday.
The judge said the need to confirm the genuineness or otherwise of the certificate Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission outweighed Tinubu’s personal concerns over its consequences.
Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP) had sought a subpoena to obtain Tinubu’s academic records following several inconsistencies that characterised the submissions Tinubu certified under oath to the Nigerian electoral office.
Tinubu had fought to have his records blocked and inaccessible to Atiku, who argued he applied for the subpoena directing discovery of his credentials from Chicago State University (CSU) in order to seek Tinubu’s nullification at Nigeria’s Supreme Court.