According to Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of a Federal High Court in Abuja, a human rights organization operating under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Social Right Advancement and Development Initiative, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, never attended the St. Paul Aroloya Primary School in Lagos.
The organisation, therefore, said that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, should be tried for perjury.
Meanwhile, ASRADI has secured an order of the court to bring an application seeking to compel the Inspector-General of Police to investigate Tinubu over allegations bordering on perjury.
Justice Olajuwon made the order while ruling in the exparte application brought by the ASRADI against the IGP.
ASRADI had in an exparte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2197/2022, sought leave of the court to bring an application for an order of judicial review, compelling the IGP to investigate Tinubu in respect of his educational qualification claims submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission in 1999.
The organisation in the motion dated and filed November 25, 2022, obtained by journalists on Wednesday stated that the legal action was necessitated by the failure of the IGP to investigate allegations of perjury brought against the APC presidential candidate.
According to the applicant, up till the time of coming to court, the respondent has “willfully refused to investigate and/or prosecute Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the offence of perjury where he is found culpable”.
The applicant in its letter dated November 1, 2022, and signed by the Executive Director of ASRADI, Adeolu Oyinlola, had asked the IG to “cause an investigation into this allegation of ours within two weeks of the receipt of this correspondence, and initiate prosecution if it is established that he swore to an affidavit – knowing full well that what he stated therein was and is false”.
The applicant in the letter titled: Investigation of Bola Ahmed Tinubu for Lying on Oath told the court that its findings revealed that the APC presidential candidate “lied on oath in every material particular. As a matter of fact, St. Paul Aroloya (Lagos) has never existed”.
