President Bola Tinubu on the 4/07/2023, opened the defence of his election victory today, July 4, tendering 17 sets of exhibits in evidence to support his eligibility to contest the February 25 presidential election.
Tinubu, who maintained that he is the bonafide winner of the presidential contest, through his team of lawyers led by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), tendered from the Barrister, certified copies of bundles of documentary evidence before the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) sitting in Abuja.
He adduced the evidence to defend the petition the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify his election victory.
Among the exhibits that President Tinubu tendered before the court, included a letter dated February 3, 2003, which the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, wrote to the Consul General of the Embassy of the United States of America, in Nigeria, demanding for his criminal record, as well as a reply the US Embassy sent to the NPF on February 4, 2003, which indicated that there was no criminal file against him.
Another bundle of documents that President Tinubu tendered in court on Tuesday, were his academic records from Chicago State University, his travel records between 2012 and 2021, which was certified on July 3, 2023, by the Nigerian Immigration Service, as well as the report of the Committee on the location of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
More so, President Tinubu tendered Forms EC8A of
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