Arrest Tinubu for supplying false academic qualifications, CSO charges IGP

…we’re unperturbed campaign organisation fires back

Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, a civil society organisation has threatened to drag the police to court if the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not arrested within 48 hours.

According to the CSO, Tinubu should be arrested for allegedly supplying force information in the documents he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to become the Lagos State governor.

CRPA Legal Adviser, Agu Kalu, issued the threat during a press conference in Abuja on Saturday.

“We wrote a petition to the IG on June 16, demanding the prosecution of Tinubu for providing false information on oath in his INEC form CF 001 which he submitted in 1999.

“Since the IG is yet to act on the petition, we are using this press conference to call on the IG to do the needful. He is not above the law, nobody is above the law. Sections 191 and 192 makes it a criminal offence to provide false information on oath.

“We are also calling on President Buhari to direct the IG to arrest and prosecute Tinubu for perjury, it is a very serious issue,” Kalu said.

According to him, the ad-hoc report of the Lagos State House of Assembly, which investigated Tinubu in 1999 said that the APC presidential candidate clearly admitted discrepancies in his academic qualifications.

But reacting, Director (Legal Directorate), Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Babatunde Ogala (SAN), said that they were ready to defend against the threats and allegations.

“There is nothing to respond to them, the Electoral Act is clear. We are waiting, let them go, let them bring the writ, we will defend it. I think we have gone past this stage of some people on social media, for whatever reason in the media, issuing threats.

“If they have anything, let them bring it. As far as we are concerned, our candidate has complied fully with the provisions of the Electoral Act. If they want to go to court, let them go to court. But we must also let them know that we are not unconscious of the laws of defamation in the country. We know the difference between a court process that is privileged and making unfounded allegations in the newspapers like they are doing now.

“But honestly, our candidate is not perturbed, he can’t be bothered by all these threats. If they want to go to court, let them go to court. When they come, we will react appropriately to the court process. What we know, we have complied fully with the provisions of the law and we will not be blackmailed and intimidated,” Ogala told The PUNCH.