Tinubu witness, and Senate leader and Senator representing Ekiti Central in the National Assembly, Opeyemi Bamidele, has testified to the presidential election tribunal that Presidential Candidate of the All-Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, forfeited $460,000 for drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States.
NN News had reported that in1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the U.S. government after a Chicago court found the income came from packing and shipping heroin, according to U.S. reputable media outlet, Daily Loud had published Tinubu’s narcotics trafficking and money laundering in the United States.
UberFacts, another reputable fact-promoting platform, revealed that Tinubu was operating different bank accounts to launder money from narcotics trafficking in the U.S.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Think Computer Corporation, Mr. Aaron Greenspan had also, drags US government, FBI, DEA, Attorney General to court over refuser to release Tinubu’s criminal file.
However, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), camp had berated Bola Tinubu, for $460,000 forfeiture case on drug charges.Atiku also said he once stopped Tinubu from shipping in drugs into Nigeria.
APC, had also admitted that its candidate Bola Tinubu, forfeit the sum of $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, USA, in 1993 for drug trafficking.
Tinubu had said that he did not commit drug crime, but the United State case was against his bank account and not me.
Meanwhile Bamidele also tendered the membership registration file of the Labour Party as of April 25, 2022, which showed that Mr Obi was not a member because his name could not be found on the list. The party’s registration document for Anambra also did not include Mr Obi’s name as of that period.
But Peter Obi exit from the PDP on May 25. Prior to that day, he had been a frontrunner in the bid for PDP’s presidential ticket. He formally announced his Labour membership two days later on May 27.
However, the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal said Mr Obi did not violate electoral law, even though he became the Labour’s presidential candidate on May 30, less than a month after he joined the party. The electoral law specified that an aspirant must have been a member of a political party for at least 30 days to be eligible to be a candidate.
The highlight of Mr Bamidele’s testimony came when he admitted under cross-examination by Mr Obi’s lawyers that Mr Tinubu indeed forfeited over $460,000 in illicit drug proceeds. The case occurred in the United States in the 1990s when Mr Tinubu was living in Chicago. The politician had declined to address the forfeiture for several years, despite its domination of headlines in the run-up to the presidential election on February 25.
Livy Uzoukwu, a senior lawyer handling Mr Obi’s case, asked whether or not Mr Bamidele knew that the forfeiture was connected to narcotics dealing, to which he responded yes. He also responded that he understood there was money laundering involved in Mr Tinubu’s matter prior to the final forfeiture.
Mr Bamidele, who recently became the majority leader of the Nigerian Senate, appeared to be the most high-profile associate of Mr Tinubu to confirm the forfeiture and narcotics background of the former Lagos governor, who was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on May 29, following his controversial declaration as winner of the February presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
