It is obvious from the first page of BATMAN’s response that Oluwole Afolabi, one of Tinubu’s Lawyers, had serious input in it.
In Chicago State University’s response, BAT’s status as President was referred to just once and subsequently he was referred to by the name ‘Tinubu’.
But in BAT’s response, na so so ‘President Tinubu this, President Tinubu that’ scatter everywhere as if President is his first name.
– Anyway, Oluwole dived into technicalities immediately, challenging Atiku’s competence to bring the matter, with a barefaced lie that Atiku’s petition did not challenge Tinubu’s educational background (As if American Judges are illiterate cousins of MC Oluomo living on Mars).
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– Oluwole proceeded to describe Enahoro Ebah’s Subpoena as Illegal and invalid, but admitted that CSU In a hurry to respond to it, made several ERRORS and issued a new diploma for Bola A. Tinubu, but incorrectly wrote the date of graduation as June 27, 1979.
The correct date was June 22, 1979, but that error – along with a change in the CSU logo, the font on the diploma, and leadership at CSU who signed the diploma –created the appearance of differences between an earlier issued diploma and the one issued in response to the 2022 subpoena.(This is the main meat of the matter. There was a serious caught here! an admission against interest; how can an official document contain so many errors?)
– The Yoruba proverb per Prophet Ashake says “O logbon ju, o gbon, o gbon, o gbon Iwo lo gbon ju Agbogbon ju, ogbon, ama molo gbon go Oti logbon ju.” (When you think say you too wise, say you wise pass everybody, your wiseness turns into STUPIDITY!)
– The real question this raises is why would CSU issue two diplomas for the same person? A certified true copy is supposed to be a copy of the original.
And , was there no original in BAT’s file? Why was a fresh copy of his diploma issued in response to a subpoena?
The OVERWISE attempt by Lawyer Oluwole to protect the ‘Oluwole’ certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC and explain away the certificate Enahoro Ebah obtained via subpoena as a mistake done in a hurry, has raised MORE questions than the issue it tried to solve
The new dimension is that we may be talking about 3 DIFFERENT CERTIFICATES now. (CSU go explain tire)
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– Oluwole also argued that Atiku is not an interested party cos he is a party in the foreign proceeding at PEPT and that even if Atiku gets the documents, it won’t be relevant or admissible at PEPT (this line of argument doesn’t even make sense. It is self contradictory.)
– Lastly Oluwole submitted that Atiku’s discovery is intrusive and burdensome and that educational laws are PRIVATE and PROTECTED by both State and Federal Laws
-He goes ahead to suggest that Atiku should be satisfied with the AFFIDAVIT of the registrar of CSU which states that Tinubu is a graduate of CSU with a degree granted in 1979 and not request anything further (Buhari did not teach him this or did he?)
– Well, Atiku has up until September 9 to respond to all these
– My submission is, Lawyer Oluwole is in a tight corner. If CSU doesn’t play his game, BAT is finished.
If CSU plays his game and admits they made a mistake in the certificate issued to Enahoro Ebah and goes ahead to Certify BAT’s fake certificate as real, CSU is finished.
A small nudge from Atiku’s Lawyers would trigger a Criminal investigation and an international scandal of EPIC proportions that may swallow the entire University and send a lot of people to jail.
We pin here with our popcorn 🍿 and a chilled drink 🍹
—Courtesy @PearlssTV / @MissPearls