Fresh Trouble For Tinubu As Group Files Suit To Stop Inauguration

A civil society organisation under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative, ASRADI, on Tuesday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja with a suit that is seeking to halt the scheduled swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May.

The group, in a motion ex-parte it filed alongside the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023, alleged that the President-elect lied on oath about his possession of a Guinean Passport.

It equally filed an affidavit of urgency wherein it requested the prompt intervention of the court in view of the planned swearing-in ceremony.

Besides, the plaintiff further sought the permission of the court to apply for an order of mandamus to compel the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to investigate and recommend Tinubu for prosecution if found guilty of perjury regarding his Guinean citizenship.

ASRADI told the court that the President-elect lied on oath when he refused to give information about his Guinean citizenship in the Form EC9 he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in aid of his qualification to contest the presidential election that was held on February 25.

“The non-disclosure by Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the INEC Form EC9 of the dual citizenship of his voluntary acquisition of the citizenship of Guinea amounts to Perjury, ” it averred in an affidavit that was attached in support of the suit.

Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for the matter to be heard.

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