David Hundeyin, a blogger and Twitter influencer, has accused Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu of lying about the former Governor of Lagos’ alleged acquisition of Guinean citizenship.
Hundeyin, who previously revealed how Mr. Tinubu submitted a fake Chicago State University certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), stated that the former Lagos State governor should face a 14-year prison term as the punishment for perjury under Nigerian law.
On Tuesday, he announced this while appearing as a guest on News Central TV. He claimed Tinubu failed to declare his Guinean citizenship on the form EC9 he submitted to INEC.
“In the form EC9, which is a sworn affidavit, there is a question that asks if the candidate has obtained citizenship of another country. It requires a simple yes or no answer.
“Tinubu clearly ticked ‘no’- that he has not acquired citizenship of another country. But there is prima facie evidence that he did acquire citizenship of another country and fairly recently as well. So, he lied under oath, which is perjury, and under the Nigerian constitution, it’s punishable with 14 years imprisonment,” he explained.
During an earlier interview on Channels TV on Sunday, the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola, said that Tinubu’s acquisition of Guinean citizenship does not make him ineligible to be Nigeria’s president.
Hundeyin, however, argued that the issue at stake is Tinubu’s deliberate falsehood in the information supplied under oath in a sworn affidavit.