United States District Court in a judgement by honourable Nancy L. Maldonado has ordered Chicago State University(CSU) to release the academic records belonging to the incumbent President of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinubu as requested by the Presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar to pursue his appeal at the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In a clear judgement delivered by Nancy L. Maldonado, it was stated that the court will not accept any stay on execution and cautioned President Tinubu that any request to stop making the academic records available to Atiku will be denied.
The deadline for the release of the academic records is Monday 2nd October 2023 and the court recognised that Atiku need the record urgently to beat deadline of 5th October in his necessary appeal to the Supreme Court.
The United States District Court noted that the judgment did not in any way express view on President Tinubu’s graduation from Chicago State University( CSU)