Atiku Abubakar’s surrogate in the United States Aaron Greenspan filed an emergency motion Friday at the District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington DC, seeking the immediate release of documents on President Bola Tinubu by the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI).
Greenspan, who is working in league with David Hundeyin, another Atiku underling, is the founder of Plainsite.org which tracks legal cases against big corporations in the U.S.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party is also hoping to benefit from what he and Atiku believe will be released by the FBI.
The hearing notice served on Obi by Nigeria’s Supreme Court was the one filed by Greenspan in his emergency motion on Friday.
In the emergency motion,Greenspan is seeking a hearing, even by Zoom, to compel the FBI to release urgently the documents it promised to release at the end of October.
His desperation, as stated in the motion in Case No. 1:23-cv-01816-BAH followed the announcement by Nigeria’s Supreme Court to hear Atiku and Peter Obi’s appeals on Monday 23 October.
Greenspan claimed in the affidavit that the plaintiffs in the case, meaning Atiku and Obi, have 60 days to appeal the judgment by the Court of Appeal, delivered on 6 September.
P.M.News learnt that the appellants do not have such luxury of time. The 60 days include the filing time and the hearing of the case. Constitutionality, the Supreme Court must deliver judgment on or before 4 November, 2023.
Greenspan also claimed that the Supreme Court decision to hear the case on 23 October was sudden.
“The sudden advance in timing appears intended to front-run the release of responsive FOIA documents from the defendants in this action and especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Those documents would likely be directly relevant to the foreign proceedings in Nigeria”, the motion claimed.
Lawyers to President Bola Tinubu, led by Christopher Carmichael, have intervened in the case. They are studying Greenspan’s latest move, P.M.News learnt.
Greenspan is a known critic of America’s richest man Elon Musk.
His Plainsite and individual accounts were suspended in June by The social media platform X.
At the time PlainSite’s account was suspended, it boasted a mere 24,000 followers. Greenspan’s personal account had just about 2,500 followers.
The case in Washington D.C. is the second attempt by Atiku to get a ‘compelling’ reason to get Tinubu disqualified by the courts.
He just ended a fishing expedition to Chicago State University hoping to prove that the certificate Tinubu submitted to INEC was forged.
But in the deposition by the university’s registrar, Caleb Westberg, CSU confirmed Tinubu attended the school and graduated with distinction.
The school also produced certificates similar to the one tendered by Tinubu to INEC.
Atiku curiously believes that he has a case against Tinubu and had filed his finding in court.
It is not clear whether he or his partner, Peter Obi will ever have a chance to file whatever document the FBI releases on President Tinubu.
Source; PM
