Nigerian court orders electoral commission to produce Tinubu's forms
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Post
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the chairman of the Nigerian electoral commission, Joash Amupitan, to produce the CF001 forms filed by Bola Tinubu for the 2023 presidential election and the 1999 Lagos governorship election. The documents are being sought in the criminal trial of opposition figure Omoyele Sowore, prosecuted for calling the president a criminal, according to the Daily Post.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a subpoena ordering the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, to produce the electoral documents relating to Bola Tinubu's candidacies in the 1999 Lagos governorship election and the 2023 presidential election, the Daily Post reports. The subpoena is part of the ongoing criminal trial of activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore is being prosecuted for describing President Tinubu as a criminal. The subpoena, signed by Justice Mohammed Garba Umar in case FHC/CR/484/2025, orders Amupitan to produce the CF001 forms filed by Tinubu in 1999, including the affidavit relating to lost certificates, as well as the 2023 one. The INEC chairman will also have to appear to testify on behalf of the defendant; the hearing notice was served on him on Monday.
The proceedings come as INEC announced on 9 November sanctions against erring electoral actors, a little over a year before the 2027 presidential election.
