Politics
PEPC: Tinubu Opens Up On Guinean Citizenship
Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has informed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that his Guinean citizenship expired in 2020, the same year that his Guinean passport, which has been brought up by the opposition, also expired.
Tinubu’s lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), made this claim while requesting that the tribunal dismiss a petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) seeking Tinubu’s removal from office.
In defence of Tinubu, his counsel stated that the Guinean passport presented as evidence by the LP’s PW27 had expired in 2020, emphasising that the opposition party’s allegation of Tinubu’s dual citizenship was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the President.
“The PW27 tendered Exhibit PBF4 (Guinean passport), which as usual, he claimed to have downloaded from the internet, purportedly representing the data pages of the respondent’s Guinean passport, which ex-facie shows that the passport expired in 2020.
“It is all guesswork, aimed at embarrassing the respondent,” Olanipekun told PEPC.
This comes in response to separate suits filed by Peter Obi (LP) and Abubakar Atiku (PDP) challenging Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential election.
The petitioners claimed Tinubu is ineligible to hold the office of president due to his dual citizenship in Nigeria and Guinea.
They also accused Tinubu of failing to disclose pertinent information regarding his constitutional qualifications in his Form EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which goes against the provisions of the law.
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