By Nicholas Ojo
President Bola Tinubu has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that the opposition party’s claim on his dual citizenship is aimed at embarrassing him.
He asserted that his Guinean citizenship expired in 2020, the same year when his Guinean passport, being brandished by the opposition, expired.
This was made known by Tinubu’s lead counsel, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) while asking the tribunal to throw out a petition by the Labour Party (LP) seeking his (Tinubu) removal from office.
He explained that the President’s Guinean passport tendered before the court by the Labour Party’s PW27 expired in 2020, adding that the opposition party’s claim on Tinubu’s dual citizenship is aimed at embarrassing the President.
Part of Tinubu’s claim through his lawyer read, “Lastly, 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 a guess work, aimed at embarrassing the respondent.”
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