Alleged Forged Certificate: IG To Arrest Tinubu Within 48 Hours?

 With the politiking for the 2023 presidential race getting thicker, a civil rights organization. Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, has given the Inspector-General of Police a 48- hour ultimatum to arrest APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

The group said the IG should arrest and initiate criminal prosecution against the former Lagos State Governor for allegedly supplying false academic qualifications to secure the nomination.

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The organisation while threatening that in the event that the IGP fail to act, said court action would be instituted against him for an order of mandamus to compel him to effect the arrest of Tinubu at the end of the ultimatum.

 CRPA Legal Adviser and human rights lawyer, Agu Kalu, in a Press Conference issued the threat in Abuja on Saturday.

Kalu also posited that Tinubu was not legally qualified to become the next President of Nigeria in 2023 on grounds of supplying false information on oath in his form EC 9 submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The legal practitioner alleged that in 1999 Bola Tinubu claimed to have attended Saint Paul Aroloya Children Home School, Ibadan between 1958 and 1964 and Government College, Ibadan between 1965 and 1969, only to turn around in 2022 that he never attended any primary or secondary school in his EC9 form.

He said, “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.”