It’s Dead Issue, Says Spokesman
By his own admission, being president of Nigeria is a lifelong goal he hopes to achieve. On June 8, at the Eagle Square in Abuja, he took a giant step towards actualizing his dream by winning the ruling All Progressive Congress’ presidential ticket. But that ambition is now threatened by his shady past which continues to haunt him.

A search for information on Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress, on several open-source websites and LexisNexis databases will yield copious details of previous associations with sundry crimes while in the United States of America in the 1990s. From

This is in addition to the unending questions about his academic record, with a civil rights group-Incorporated Trustees of Center for Reform and Public Advocacy- now in court to compel the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, to prosecute the former Lagos State governor for alleged perjury.

Many Nigerians who have questioned his past may have dug into his history and found scary skeletons and carcasses that he could not bury, and that has defined his politics.

While you will not find him on the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Alert List or the Interpol Most Wanted List, you will find damning information about his alleged link to narcotics trade and how he laundered alleged drug money by buying and selling properties in the US using different signatures to hide his identity.

A report first published in 2015 by thedailybeast.com claimed Tinubu was a clear accomplice in a drug and money laundering case involving two Nigerians– Adegboyega Mueez Akanda and his nephew, Abiodun Agbele. A United States Government Narcotics Attaché in its embassy in Nigeria, Andre W. Kellum, claimed in an Affidavit dated 1992 that the two Nigerians were part of an organization that distributed cocaine, which was operated by Tinubu.

But while Tinubu escaped arrest and prosecution by effectively masking his role in a drug cartel, evidence of funds lodgments in his bank accounts allegedly established him as a kingpin of the narcotics trade.

Drug Money Traced To Tinubu’s Bank Accounts
Tinubu’s flanks were exposed when Special US agents investigating the case traced illicit funds to bank accounts operated by him. The US Government alleged that bank accounts held by Tinubu represented the “proceeds of narcotics trafficking” and money laundering.

In December 1989 Akande allegedly opened an “individual money account” for Tinubu at a First Heritage Bank with his residential address stated as 7504 South Stewart Avenue, Chicago.

Investigators found the address to be “ the drop-off point for packages from Nigeria that contained the white heroin.” In another credit application dated January 6, 1990, seen by the Special Agent, Tinubu stated that Akande was his cousin.

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and 2023 APC presidential candidate.
Curiously, at the time Akande and Agbele were being investigated, Tinubu was an employee of Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited, of Fairfax, Virginia and was on a monthly salary of $2,400. But despite only earning $2,400 a month with no other income, bank records obtained by investigators from First Heritage Bank disclosed that in 1990 alone, Tinubu deposited $661,000 into his individual money market account and in 1993; he deposited the sum of $1,216,500 into the same money market account.

By 1992, US investigators had concluded that Tinubu was part of the international drug trade on account of the volume of funds found in his accounts which he could not satisfactorily explain. On January 10, 1992, Federal agents obtained the court order to freeze some of his bank accounts.


Tinubu ‘Confessed’ And Forfeited Money To US Govt
An amount exceeding $1.4 million dollars was seized from his account, a move he fought in court after claiming he made the money legitimately. Tinubu had also denied to investigators that he had any additional bank accounts in the US. But other accounts operated by him were found to contain huge sums.

An account hidden at Citibank under the name of “Compass Finance and Investment Company” were found to be operated by Tinubu in partnership with Akande and Agbele. A seizure warrant was issued on January 24, 1992, on Tinubu’s Citibank account, and the sum of $600,000 was seized.

Tinubu obviously sensing that the game was up, agreed to forfeit the funds to the US Government. A document on the forfeiture signed at a US District Court, Northern District of IIIinious on 07/26/1993 said “the funds in the amount of $460,000 in account in the name of Bola Tinubu represents proceeds of narcotics or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 USC ss 1956 and 1957 and therefore these funds are forfeited to the United States.”

Tinubu had further given himself away during the investigation of his role in the distribution of narcotics in the US by suspicious money transfers for property purchases. A case mentioned was the purchase of 10111 Limestone Court, Potomac, Maryland 20854 on February 21, 1992, for $450,000. It was an obvious attempt to launder the drug money and divert investigators’ attention away from him.

But how was a man who claimed to earn $2, 800 a month able to purchase a house worth $450,000?

Tinubu Uses Non-Identical Signatures To Launder Funds
If the above claims were not enough to establish a criminal past, his constant change of signature on legal documents also gave him away as an intelligent crook. His US investigators found that his signature on the deed for the purchase of the Potomac, Maryland house in 1992 was different from that of the property on 12625 Hillmeade Station Drive, Prince Georges, Maryland 20720, purchased on January 18, 1995 for $147,000.


Another property at 1708 Parkside Drive, Mitchellville, Maryland 20720, purchased by Tinubu in May 1997 for $491,465 bore a different signature from the others. Tinubu gave investigators the impression that he was a criminal running from the law. He was at the time, and probably now, like a man trying hard to erase his footprints.


APC leaders must now be wondering if they had backed the wrong horse.

Tinubu knows the past and wants it buried forever. He has worked too hard to push himself to his present political pedestal and wants the past to remain dead. When asked to comment on Tinubu’s dark past, Bayo Onanuga, spokesman for his presidential campaign, could not hide his anger and disgust.

After several calls and text messages, he finally called back and railed at the reporter. “You’re a journalist, right? You people just like digging up a dead matter. The case happened 30 years ago. It’s a dead matter, finished.”

But apparently for Nigerians, he seeks to rule, the issues are neither dead nor finished.

https://thewhistler.ng/tinubus-dark-past-threatens-lifelong-presidential-ambition-as-report-establishes-links-to-drug-trade/

Tinubu spokesman from Igbo land, Pandora Peter OBItuary miscreants

IamWonderful:
Tinubu spokesman from Igbo land, Pandora Peter OBItuary miscreants

Too much illiteracy in the land. The spokesman is Bayo Onanuga.

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Tinubu is a professional criminal and drug lord .this man will steal Nigeria fund if allowed to rule

Who killed the drug case? Imagine having a drug baron as the leader of your country, spits!

#OBIdience 2023

He will end up shamefully, he thinks he has outran his past but he is in for a surprise!

So the agbado master was doing oluwole things in America apart from drug pushing na wa o

IamWonderful:
Tinubu spokesman from Igbo land, Pandora Peter OBItuary miscreants

olodo rapata, please tell the world when Bayo Onanuga became an Igbo name

Once a drug dealer always a drug leader.Tinubu have too many skeleton in his cupboard to be a presşdent of any nation not even in Colombia would he be allowed to rule.

APC no get Shame at all.

Tinubu is too corrupt to rule. APC should disqualify and replace him immediately before the 15th deadline

I don’t know if APC is a Political party or a Cartel

paramakina202:
Once a drug dealer always a drug leader.Tinubu have too many skeleton in his cupboard to be a presşdent of any nation not even in Colombia would he be allowed to rule.

It'll probably get to a point when the cupboard is so crammed full with skeletons that they'll have to grab a high-backed chair to hold the closed doors in place so they don't burst open and spill their gory contents all over the bedroom floor!

Holy Sh!t.. so it's true after all.. thought it was a mere propaganda. No No No, nothing is ever buried nor 4gotten.. Old habit they say die hard.

Viscuz:
I don’t know if APC is a Political party or a Cartel

I'd go with the later!

One way or another, there's something really fishy about Tinubu's past. No matter how much he wants to run away from it.

In saner climes, people avoid public offices to avoid things like this being dug up but in Nigeria "anything goes".

At the end, please get your PVC and vote your conscience.

IamWonderful:
Tinubu spokesman from Igbo land, Pandora Peter OBItuary miscreants

then why are you boarded, it gives you sleepless night by the mention of his name.

As my personal people talk before

As the Tinubu spokesman said, the case is dead, except if we don get Jesus for Nigeria or this forum wey fit raise Lazarus

swaggerjack:

Too much illiteracy in the land. The spokesman is Bayo Onanuga.

it is better to be an illiterate than to be filled with bitterness and hatred like IPOB miscreants and cannibals, Bayo Onanuga can be such stupid on something unclear and cheap blackmail by IPOB miscreants and cannibals

ok

Shrimpss:
then why are you boarded, it gives you sleepless night by the mention of his name.

Sleepless nights? Hehehehehe I am catching cruise by giving baby factory criminals tough time, they are the ones running after my mention

RZArecta:
olodo rapata, please tell the world when Bayo Onanuga became an Igbo name

You mean Bayo Onanuga confirmed to you personally that it was indeed a case? igbos can do anything to smear Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

IamWonderful:
Sleepless nights? Hehehehehe I am catching cruise by giving baby factory criminals tough time, they are the ones running after my mention

you are not catching any cruise.

We need your prayers. Dark clouds are gathering over the nation.

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IamWonderful:
Tinubu spokesman from Igbo land, Pandora Peter OBItuary miscreants

[b]no derail this thread abeg

Ill gotten wealth made your jagagban!

If he could do all that as an ordinary person, what won't he do as a president

He is now old and has nothing to lose, he will legalise whatever he is caught with, na you and your generation go suffer am!

Iamstupidful:
Tinubu spokesman from agbado and cassava land, Peter OBI supporters are so amazing

I just fixed you stupidity