Nice one incoming president of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar Wazirin Adamawa

how can any sane normal human being think a person convicted or wanted by the American government will be allowed to be holding meetings with top American government officials? if anyone still harbors that thought, then no doubt about it such a person is not fit to be alive or to be living among human beings. even a dog or monkey can see how relaxed these people are with Atiku

Yesterday I thought I saw Oga Reno ...abeg make you na help me peruse this picture, make e no be like say my eye dey pain me.

All these men that hustled their way to be part of this delegation are just struggling to form the cabinet if atiku should win. Lol

sammirano:
Asiwaju No dey that League. Na dem dey Rush am

Rushing him for the heroin that he was indicted on, and forfeited $460,000 to get leniency?
Or rush the Asiwaju agberos like MC Oluomo for what precisely

Francis5:
04.27.155:18 AM ET

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

General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. 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.

Tinubu gave differing accounts for his wealth to Moss. In one phone call from Nigeria, shortly after the U.S. Treasury seized his money, he admitted to wiring $100,000 to Akande’s Houston bank account and to receiving the $80,000 from Akande into his First Heritage account. Tinubu also said that apart from one other account in Fairfax, Virginia, he had no other money stashed in U.S. banks.

Except that there were other accounts. Citibank has a worldwide banking division known as Citibank International where Tinubu stashed an additional $550,000. He also controlled an entity called Compass Finance and Investments Company Ltd., of which Akande and Agbele were directors. Still another nexus of money transfers was uncovered by federal investigators, with cash moving from First Heritage to Citibank to Citibank International, where it wound up in Tinubu’s personal accounts and in those belonging to Compass Finance and Investments. In a follow-up exchange with law enforcement officers, Tinubu changed his story. Just days after conceding that he’d sent and received money to and from Akande, he insisted that he had no financial or business dealings with Akande or Agbele.

There’s no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime. He eventually settled with the district court, turning over $460,000 of the seized $1.4 million, with the remainder released back to him. The Beast tried repeatedly to contact Marsha McClellan, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, but was unsuccessful.

“I’m not surprised at all,” said Virginia Comolli, a specialist on Nigeria and author of Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. “There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash. Even ones who seem fairly clean turn out to have some dark histories.” The perfect case in point is Tinubu’s political project and new president-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammed Buhari, who in 1983 helped overthrow a democratically elected government in a military coup d’etat on the grounds that the government was undisciplined and corrupt. “He resorted to brutal methods, beating up people for not queuing properly and imposing limitations on the media,” Comolli said. “I think a lot of the votes Buhari got were anti-Jonathan rather than pro-Buhari.”

But no doubt, many also came from a savvy fusion of political factions. In February 2013, Tinubu successfully merged his own influential Action Congress party with Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, resulting in the All Progressives Congress. The marriage united Nigeria’s most populous northwest and southwest regions and the ensuing campaign was billed by Tinubu as a “commonsense revolution” against a corrupt and venal incumbency which, in its five years in power, had seen the terrorist group and newly-minted ISIS affiliate Boko Haram thrive. Buhari swept the election with 2.7 million more votes than Jonathan.

Even before that trouncing, however, Tinubu had a relatively positive reputation in Nigeria, according to former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell. “He is widely regarded as having been a highly successful governor of Lagos state,” he said. “Together with Tinubu’s handpicked successor, Babatunde Fashola, Lagos has seen dramatic improvements in everything from practical stuff like garbage collection to the collection of taxes and the provision of public services,” Campbell told The Beast. Though even here, the ex-diplomat admits, Tinubu’s good governance has been clouded by controversy. “He established a company to do the tax collecting in return for a cut and, at one point, Tinubu and Fashola appeared to be splitting over the percentage of Tinubu’s cut.”

Drug charges do indeed appear to be the sine qua non for Nigerian high office. The year 1993, when Tinubu’s assets were seized, was a turbulent period for Nigeria following the cancellation of a national election and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Moshood Abiola, the rightful winner of that election, was accused of narcotics trafficking. So too is “Prince” Buruji Kashamu from the People’s Democratic Party, who has faced extradition back to the United States since 1998. Kashamu was indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for being the elusive “Alaji,” a globetrotting drug kingpin who smuggled heroin into O’Hare International Airport from Europe and Asia. Piper Kerman, the memoirist who inspired the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, famously worked for Alaji. Kashamu denies the charges and insists that he was purportedly a counterterrorism informant to the U.S. government before and after 9/11, and that the real trafficker was his now-deceased brother.

Despite his party’s general loss to the All Progressives Congress, Kashumu was elected in March as senator of the southwest Ogun state. In what appeared to be a magnanimous gesture to the winner, he took out an advertisement praising Tinubu as a role model. The Jagaban was distinctly unimpressed. He trashed the comparison in a statement signed by his media adviser, claiming that for Kashamu “to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain.” Tinubu instructed the “false praise singer” to go face the music in the Windy City before deigning to talk to him.

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

Atiku is the best

The Next President of Federal Republic Of Nigeria. Atiku Abubakar []

jaxxy:
These criminals are back to do what?? we don't need them. Godforbid!

A New Nigeria is coming.

Please who is this new Nigeria that is coming and not a criminal?
Is it just the president? Or you are including your LGA councillors and chairmen, state lawmakers and governors, representatives and senators

lhordspy:
Waste of time. The visit is incosequential. Nigerians will vote not all these people.

Any small thing you see them running to their slave masters, looking for validations up and down.

Imagine meeting 'Deputy assistant secretary' to one irrelevant post in a foreign country. See them glorifying and clamouring behind like a day old chicks.

Deputy assistant secretary for goodness sake, not even assistant secretary, not even secretary. A secretary can have 5 assistants, those assistants can have 10 different deputy assistants each, which these ones they are meeting are part of.
Kai.... No wonder we are still stuck with a third world country tag. We just cant stop behaving as such.

See how Emeka Ihedioha is forcing himself to appear in a picture with 'Oyinbo White master'

Disgraceful set of people.

i thought you said he can not visit America... Now that he is in America... The Visit is irrelevant...

And so many people will fall for this drama. What does this has to contribute to the present situation in Nigeria..

atinga1:
Dem go chop Atiku stolen money wella. Dem kukuma know its Nigeria's money, and since some clueless cashtivists like TonyeBarcanista are cheering him on, they might as well as wipe their mouth with his loot.
He'll experience his last defeat on 2023.
Even his twitter influence Sarki, will vote for another candidate.

Just as they are chopping Tinubu’s stolen money and that of Peter Obi

Viraltrends123:
LOL, be decieving yourself, swear with your life that you are Yoruba

lol. Dont believe me na your wahala

atinga1:

You have malaria. Treat it first.

u think obi will win? Lol

ochejoseph:


Source: https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1586284711218847744?t=YTs9vuonGw5s7RMVEIlCdA&s=09

Anybody can meet anybody after all devil met with God and still fail.
JAGABAN IZA COMING

Atiku 4 Nigeria

NgeneUkwenu:
Useless meetings with with clerks.

Atiku try again in 2027.

I am just laughing here imagine all these big people here in Nigeria following this clerk In a government office in Washington up and down.Atiku is just belittling himself and his followers

My Next President Is Atiku

seguno2:


Please who is this new Nigeria that is coming and not a criminal?
Is it just the president? Or you are including your LGA councillors and chairmen, state lawmakers and governors, representatives and senators

The corrupt entities that have been eating and mismanaging our public funds. Any of them contesting for any position. they will be uprooted out of their corrupt desk.

Abi suffer never taya you?

Criminals

Keep on deceiving himself

Insha Allah Alhaji Atiku Will Be The President To End Insecurity In Nigeria

Support And Vote PDP ��✔

This is a huge joke.

So aranging one white skin woman and taking pictures with a number of inconsequential losers he traveled with to ame4rica after obtaining a waiver and wearing an oversized suit is now an issue to brag about.

How these folks fail to admit reality baffles me.

Atiku is committed to rescuing Nigeria, he is the most prepared, he is the most educated among the top contenders, above all he has the most experience having served as Vice President for 8 years (1999-2007).

Akauda:
You are what Nigeria is waiting for 2023 Atikulate

if he likes let him go meet
king Charles
he will never rule Nigeria

Munamoqel:
all this Nigeria big men with a junior civil servant .but Atiku look more presidental more than all the other candidate

In as much my vote will go for Obi, u are absolutely right.

HardMirror:
lol. Dont believe me na your wahala

You can vote your PDP, PDP even won in osun recently, so I wasn't expecting PDP to take no vote out of southwest, as for me, Both parties are thesame, we are already seeing decamping again already, Even your Atiku was in APC years ago, Even Obi was in PDP before.

As for me, I will vote competence.

Good the new president to rules Nigeria with legacy and expertise that will bring alot positive change in Nigeria

America never want any good to come out of Africa.
Within them they prefer a corrupt leader so that Africans can continue being their slaves.
All those corruption issues they are pretending to fight against is just lip service.

Stronghold91:

if he likes let him go meet
king Charles
he will never rule Nigeria

I say a big Amen to that!

Atitu ko Idimi ni

ochejoseph:


Source: https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1586284711218847744?t=YTs9vuonGw5s7RMVEIlCdA&s=09

It would have been nice to have pictures from inside the room. Some harsh critics might say that the poor woman in this picture was ambushed by Atiku and his entourage and politely taken "hostage" for these pictures.

Please supply pictures from the room and take down these pictures- they honestly make me uncomfortable .

ekanx27:
This woman go good to fvck sha

How, with that watery pussi wey go dey draw like draw soup without friction to hold the dick, chai you need to improve on the pussi u fvck