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BREAKING: US court dashes Atiku’s hope! *Shifts hearing on Chicago varsity case to December
Any hope of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), using the evidence from the Chicago State University (CSU) to strengthen his case against President Bola Tinubu, has been dashed, as the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, has shifted its hearing to December.
This means that the Supreme Court, would have decided the case of the eligibility of Tinubu to contest the 2023 presidential election before the outcome of the US court verdict is known, substantially destroying the intention of the former VP to stop the President in his track if he actually engaged in identity theft, as such proof would go into no issue.
Atiku, who failed to secure victory at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Wednesday, September 6, after telling the court, as part of his contention that Tinubu was not qualified to contest the election on the ground that he was not the person that attended the university, had mounted an intensive campaign recently to get the Chicago court help him to validate his claim.
He had approached the court to release the details of Tinubu’s records in the university, after a claim by David Hundeyin, a Nigerian investigative journalist, based in the US, that the Bola A. Tinubu, who attended the university, was a female and therefore not the one who is Nigeria’s President.
Hundeyin, had relied on a “Direct Criminal Complaint” filing of one Mike Eneharo-Ebah on November 9, 2022, at the Chief Magistrate Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to commence his own investigation, which he said turned out the startling details of a case of identity theft against the President.
Enahoro-Ebah who identified himself as a human rights defender and public interest litigator in Abuja, alleged that Tinubu submitted an “Affidavit of Personal Particulars” to INEC in June 2022 as part of a required filing to run for president that included a forged CSU diploma dated June 22, 1979 and other information that were inconsistent with the CSU documents.
TheNiche reports that the District Court had weeks ago ruled that it had jurisdiction in the case to compel CSU to produce critical documents relating to Tinubu who claims he got a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with honours from the varsity, said it obtained on Sunday a document from the court showing that hearing in the case would begin on December 9, 2023 at 1:30pm.
The court, in the document entered by the clerk on September 8, said that if the university has any objections to the scope of Atiku’s subpoenas for documents and others it should file such by 5 pm on November 9, 2023 “rather than reserve those objections until a later date.”
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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