The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled in favour of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and ordered that the Chicago State University should release President Tinubu\u2019s academic record to the former vice president by Monday, October 2.<\/p>\n
Judge Nancy Maldonado, in a copy of the judgment obtained by PUNCH on Sunday, noted that CSU raised no objection to Judge Jeffery Gilbert\u2019s decision that the academic record be made public.<\/span><\/p>\n The court explained that any intrusion on Tinubu\u2019s privacy interests in his educational records is outweighed by Atiku\u2019s interest in the sought-after discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n Maldonado overruled Tinubu\u2019s objections to Gilbert\u2019s recommended ruling and therefore adopted the ruling in full.<\/span><\/p>\n The memorandum opinion and order read in part, \u201cAtiku\u2019s application is therefore granted. In light of the pending Supreme Court of Nigeria deadline. represented to the Court as October 5, 2023, and based on CSU\u2019s representations that it is ready to comply with the discovery requests and produce a witness, the Court sets an expedited schedule for completion of discovery. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRespondent CSU is directed to produce all relevant and non-privileged documents.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Rule 30(b)(6) deposition of CSU\u2019s corporate designee must be completed by 5:00 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Given the October 5, 2023, filing deadline before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Court will not extend or modify these\u00a0deadlines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled in favour of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and ordered that the Chicago State University should release President Tinubu\u2019s academic record to the former vice president by Monday, October 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1503,7715,7714,7116,7713],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abubakar-atiku","tag-academic-records","tag-chicago-state-university","tag-president-bola-tinubu","tag-us-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15730,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions\/15730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}