Plaintiff has informed the court that the All Progressive Congress flag bearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu risks electoral Disqualification over perjury allegation, adding that the St. Paul Aroloya Primary School he claimed to have attended never existed.
On Wednesday, a group acting on behalf of the Incorporated Trustees of the Advocacy for Social Right Advancement and Development Initiative, ASRADI, filed a petition with the Federal High Court in Abuja claiming that the St. Paul Aroloya Primary School in Lagos, which Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, claimed to have attended, never existed.
The group told the court that the application was necessitated by the repeated refusal by the IGP to investigate a petition it brought against the APC candidate.
The Applicant argued that the non-disclosure by Tinubu in the INEC Form CF 001 of the qualification he got in respect of the primary school he attended after stating that he attended St. Paul Aroloya, Children Home School Ibadan, from 1958 to 1964, was a gap that needed to be investigated, as the said school never existed.
More so, it told the court that due to the actions and inactions of the police over the matter, Tinubu, “is walking free without answering to his past deeds and is contesting for the presidency of Nigeria with dubious educational qualification claims”.
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The group among other things prayed the court to declare that “by virtue of Section 215(1) (a) and 2 of the Constitution and Sections 7(1), 31 and 32 of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, the IGP is under both constitutional and statutory obligation to investigate Tinubu for the offence of perjury contained in the INEC Form CF 001, sworn to by him on December 20, 1999, regarding his educational qualification”.
It equally sought an Order of Mandamus compelling the Respondent to investigate the filings made by Tinubu and where he is found culpable be referred to the Attorney General of the Federation for prosecution.
In his ruling, Justice Olajuwon granted the Applicant the leave to file for an order of Mandamus (a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a court[1] to any government, subordinate court, corporation, or public authority, to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do) to be issued against the IGP, even as he adjourned the matter till February 16 for a hearing. Source: Vanguard.
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