In the presidential Election Petition Tribunal, President Bola Tinubu’s legal team, led by Wole Olanipekun (SAN), debunked claims of Tinubu’s Guinean citizenship.
They stated that his Guinean citizenship had expired in 2020, the same year his Guinean passport was alleged to have expired.
The statement was made in response to a petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) seeking President Tinubu’s removal from office.
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Tinubu is a Guinean
The Labour Party (LP), along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), argued that he holds dual citizenship in both Nigeria and Guinea, making him ineligible to hold LSthe office of president.
President Tinubu’s counsel argued that the Guinean passport presented as evidence by the LP showed an expiration date of 2020.
They dismissed the document as unreliable and suggested that it was an attempt to embarrass the President.
The petitioners have also accused President Tinubu of failing to disclose information about his constitutional qualifications in his Form EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which is a requirement by law for presidential candidates.
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PDP accuses APC lawyers of attempting to intimidate judiciary
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly criticized the written address submitted by President Tinubu and the lawyers representing the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPC).
In a statement released by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP accused the APC lawyers of employing a pre-emptive strategy to intimidate the judiciary.
According to the PDP, the lawyers’ address contained alleged threats of crisis and anarchy should the tribunal rule that their clients failed to meet the constitutionally mandated requirement of securing 25 percent of the votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
