A United States lobbying firm says talk that President Bola Tinubu bought silence on old American law files with mines worth seven hundred billion dollars is false.
Von Batten Montague York L.C. says the meeting Nigerians were told would seal that bargain with President Donald Trump never happened. On the same day Nigerian officials signed a non binding mining paper in New York, the FBI put another sworn declaration about Tinubu on the federal court record.
The firm tells Nigerians who fear their president is a tool of a foreign power not to point first at America. It says they should look at the country he ran to for help after word came that the United States would take the mining opening but would not give him the White House meeting.
Two days before that reply, while officials acting for Tinubu were signing the mining memorandum in New York, the FBI filed fresh sworn papers in federal court. The bureau again said its search was aimed at records on Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It repeated that the files come from a drug trafficking investigation. Those files cover controlled drug buys by a cooperating witness, federal grand jury work, and electronic surveillance.
The Executive Office for United States Attorneys went further. It confirmed that records exist on an assistant United States attorney’s prosecution plan and on grand jury targets. A prosecution plan is the prosecutor’s map for a possible case, including what charges might be brought. The firm says that paper, if made public, could test claims that Tinubu turned on fellow heroin traffickers and became a government witness.
The mining paper is not a sale of mines. It is a non binding framework on rocks data, exploration, processing, roads and skills. Nigeria puts the value of its minerals at about seven hundred billion dollars. The firm says the signing date does not prove a payoff and does not stop the court fight.
