Today’s Headlines: Tribunal Sacks Lagos LP Rep; Don’t Release My Documents To Atiku, Tinubu Tells Chicago Varsity

Tribunal Sacks Lagos LP Rep

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The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Lagos has nullified the return of the Labour Party’s (LP’s) candidate, Seyi Sowunmi, as the House of Representatives member for Ojo Federal Constituency in Lagos State.

Instead, the three-man panel led by Justice Abdullahi Ozegya declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lanre Ogunyemi, as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on February 25, 2023.

The other members of the panel are Justice Ashu Ewah and Justice Muhammad Sambo.

Ogunyemi, a two-term state lawmaker and former secretary of the APC in Lagos, had challenged the declaration of Sowunmi by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of the election on the grounds that the respondent was not duly sponsored and qualified to contest the election under the candidacy of Labour Party for Ojo Federal Constituency.

Don’t Release My Documents To Atiku, Tinubu Tells Chicago Varsity

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President Bola Tinubu has asked the Chicago State University (CSU) not to release his academic credentials to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

On August 23, Tinubu’s attorney submitted a statement as part of his legal argument in his response to the suit filed by Atiku at a United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, demanding that CSU release all of his academic records over irregularities in the certificate he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In his response, Tinubu said a clerical error was responsible for discrepancies on the certificate issued to him by the varsity.

According to filings by Oluwole Afolabi and Christopher Carmichael, Tinubu’s lawyers, an unidentified clerk of the university made the error about the date the school stated on his recently-issued certificate, thereby creating “the appearance of differences.”

This submission followed Judge Jeffrey Gilbert’s directive to Tinubu to provide an explanation by August 23 regarding the potential release of his academic records at CSU to Atiku.

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APC Leaders Step Into Sanwo-Olu, Assembly Row

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All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Lagos State have waded into the row between Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the House of Assembly over the delayed confirmation of 19 of 39 commissioner-nominees.

The leaders urged calm, saying that the situation is under control.

Among the nominees whose confirmation were put on hold are Prof. Akin Abayomj, former Commissioner for Health and Deputy Incident Commander, and his Information and Strategy counterpart, Gbenga Omotoso, an eminent journalist.

Others are Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, Mr Yomi Oluyomi, Mrs Folashade Ambrose, Ms Barakat Bakare, Olalere Odusote, Dr Rotimi Fashola, Mrs Bolaji Dada, Mr Sam Egube, Mr Olalekan Fatodu, Mrs Solape Hammond, Mr Mosopefolu George, Engr. Aramide Adeyoye, Mr Seun Osiyemi, Mr Rotimi Ogunwuyi, and Dr Olumide Oluyinka.

However, 22 were cleared, according to Speaker Mudashiru Obasanjo, who reeled out the names of confirmed nominees at plenary on Wednesday.

President Graduated In 1979, Chicago varsity Replies Atiku

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Chicago State University (CSU) has again confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu graduated from the institution in 1979.

It stated this in response to an application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 25 election, Atiku Abubakar.

The United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on August 9, ordered the university to respond to the application.

The case, numbered 1:23-cv-05099, is before Judge Maldonado Gilbert.

The university, in the response sighted by our reporter yesterday, stated that it would “defer” to the “intervenor” Tinubu concerning objections to privacy and relevancy issues he raised on the application.

It added: “Bola Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, graduated from the University in 1979.