{"id":38404,"date":"2023-05-16T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38404"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:49:38","slug":"nigeria-guinean-citizenship-group-asks-court-to-order-probe-prosecution-of-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/nigeria-guinean-citizenship-group-asks-court-to-order-probe-prosecution-of-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Guinean Citizenship: Group asks court to order probe, prosecution of Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The group pleaded with the court for a speedy hearing and determination of its suit seeking the probe and prosecution of Mr Tinubu over his alleged Guinean citizenship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Ameh Ejekwonyilo<\/p>\n<p>A civil society organisation has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to order the investigation and prosecution of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, over his alleged Guinean citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI) accused Mr Tinubu of perjury for refusing to disclose his alleged dual citizenship to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>In the suit filed on Tuesday, the group urged the court to order the police to probe the case and possibly refer Mr Tinubu to the Attorney-General of the Federation for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>It pleaded with the court to hear and determine the request \u201cbefore the swearing-in of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tinubu will begin to enjoy constitutional immunity from prosecution once he is inaugurated on 29 May.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/more-news\/598822-guinean-citizenship-group-asks-court-to-order-probe-prosecution-of-tinubu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/more-news\/598822-guinean-citizenship-group-asks-court-to-order-probe-prosecution-of-tinubu.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group pleaded with the court for a speedy hearing and determination of its suit seeking the probe and prosecution of Mr Tinubu over his alleged Guinean citizenship. By Ameh Ejekwonyilo A civil society organisation has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to order the investigation and prosecution of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, over his [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-691","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38405,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404\/revisions\/38405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}