The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asked the Nigerian presidential election petition court in Abuja to disqualify Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who he referred to as the “president-elect,” for holding dual citizenship of Nigeria and Guinea.
Atiku made this request while responding to Tinubu’s preliminary objection filed before the court. After the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election, reports emerged that he allegedly obtained citizenship of Guinea, which divided opinion on social media. Atiku alleged that Tinubu’s dual citizenship disqualifies him from contesting elections in Nigeria.
Atiku further alleged that Tinubu did not disclose the facts of his constitutional qualifications in his Form EC9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Atiku claimed that Tinubu has “demonstrated inconsistency as to his actual date of birth, secondary schools he attended (Government College Ibadan); his state of origin, gender, actual name; certificates evidencing universities attended (Chicago State University)”.
Atiku also made it known that Tinubu is unfit to govern the country as he has been indicted for drug-related offenses in the United States and made him forfeit a sum of $460,000 as a compromise agreement.
Atiku argued that Tinubu did not secure 25 percent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as required by the constitution. He further noted that the return of Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election was “undue, unlawful, and invalid” because he did not meet the constitutional requirements.
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