The suit filed by Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party against Nigeria’s president, Bola Tinubu in a Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois County, United States of America, has been dismissed.
Mr Abubakar’s lawsuit was seeking for Tinubu’s academic records from the Chicago State University.
Tinubu had claimed that he had a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with honours, which was confirmed by Beverly Poindexter, who is in charge of official transcript requests, enrolment and degree verification at the Office of the Registrar, CSU.
Punch reports that Abubakar’s recently suit seeking to subpoena the university was said to have, before the date of hearing, withdrawn the case before the court.
According to the Circuit Court papers dated July 31, and obtained by Sunday PUNCH on Saturday, Judge Patrick J. Heneghan dismissed the case without prejudice.
In the judgment, the judge held that the “petitioner’s subpoena in this case is withdrawn and thus Chicago State University will not be deposed pursuant to the subpoena in this case.”
Ruling on the matter which had Atiku as the petitioner and CSU as the respondent, Justice Heneghan said the case was dismissed without prejudice and resolves all matters pending before the court.
