Atiku Abubakar’s surrogate in the United States (U.S.), Aaron Greenspan, has filed an emergency Motion on 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 tomorrow, 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.
It was 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 FBI. Those documents would likely be directly relevant to the foreign proceedings in Nigeria”, the Motion claimed.
