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Smiling with delight In a display of unwavering allegiance at its height, Senators Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, FCA, and Opeyemi Bamidele visited their mentor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, to present to him their National Awards conferred on them by President Buhari

Tinubu's mentor-mentee relationship with his political students is something that should be studied as a course in our institutions of higher learning. These politicians have merely demonstrated pragmatic allegiance to their beneficiary.

Tinubu has mentored so many people over the course of his political career that he now towers above all other candidates in terms of the number of loyalists fighting for his candidacy.

One positive aspect of Tinubu's leadership is that he takes his time to ensure that his pupils are taught with the utmost professionalism and decorum, and as a result, all of his students are still succeeding in their endeavours.

Tinubu is the only Governor from the class of 1999 who is still politically relevant today, thanks to his visionary leadership that is second to none.

Both Mr. Wale Edun and Hon. James Faleke, the secretary of the APC PCC who are also  proud graduates of the Bourdillion School of Progressive Politics, were present during the presentation.

Take a look at these charming photos from the presentation that will make you smile.

Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah is the Chairman and Principal of Bush Radio Academy.

Source iReporteronline.

Dapson73:


Tinubu is the next president of Federal republic of Nigeria.

anochuko01:


While your suggestion of Tinubu remaining a God father like the people you mentioned, you failed to mention that those people were accrual presidents. Obasanjo still attempted to go for a third term and Jonathan had no choice than to relinquish his seat.

Secondly, you said to whom much is given, much is expected. There are only two politicians in Nigeria who have assembled smart brains in their government, and they're obasanjo and Tinubu. Also, no one comes close to Tinubu when you're talking about politicians who have "raised" and mentored students.

This isn't an endorsement though, I'm just trying to give my opinion on what you said.

Corridon:
Tinubu looks terribly sick and needs urgent medical attention.

Brendaniel:
hmmm

oikirodah:
Follow Who Know Road: That Moment Sen Adeola And Opeyemi Bamidele Presented Their National Awards To Tinubu(Photos)

Francis5:

Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html