₦airaland Forum

JoeNL22:
We say NO to Tinubu!
#9jaNoBeLagos.

abi o

agadez007:
They want to foist a living dead on us
Somebody that will spend 3/4 of his office in hospital
Say no to BAT

hmmm

Lol

an0daGuy:
There’s nothing to expose about tilumbu that will shock Nigerians again. The guy is a personification of everything that can ever go wrong with this country in 4 years pere

the only thing that can faze us is if you are able to expose exactly how rumpled his scrotal sac is

Hmm

AntonVince:
O kare ja e...Omo oko.
Quite incisive!

Brookdcook:
Oga Tinubu talk am abi him no talk am ?

. The thing no Tire you ?

I hear you

Jones4190:
Lagos is better under tinubu

Tinubu Real name na Yekini

Expose am wella

Optma88:
show the video if he talk am, or you remaining quiet.

But check it on google na abi na only Nairaland your phone dey open ?

Optma88:
baby factory product, this statement was made since 2014, what is your motive of bringing the news here now as if it was made yesterday and beside, we all know how Nigeria journalist behave, they might just twist his statement to sell their newspapers, so baby factory product, fine another better news, this one is dead already.

Political slave was it said or was it not said ehh malu?

Can’t you see I wrote “a post from 2014 “ on the article?

Optma88:
baby factory product, where is the link?

Political slave here it is

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/all-yoruba-obas-are-useless-says-bola-tinubu/

I’m just a Nigerian like you election will come and go. The politicians will get reach if they loose or win . You will still come back next election to sing their name

Optma88:
that name send fear to you too? That name is just like a tick smoke in the hole of a bush rat, it would surely chase hater out of their hole for proper identification.

Na wa Tinubu

Anyone not supporting Tinubu is a hater?

Optma88:
Jagaban of Africa, Asiwaju of the universe. The name that send fear to the camp of hater.

Medik 55

E shock you

Smithkafors:
Nawao......baggages

No lies detected

PresidObi:
Even Borno will be very beautiful if it were to be the Federal capital for 20 years.

We are just being civil and working for the country . Uncle stop bolding your comment

Kalashnikov49:
This campaign GO BLOODY...

shey zombies talk say them sabi malign people.

Now the whole Nigerian YOUTHS will flood the Internet with news about the useless miscreant of touts and MURIC zombies.

UNA MUST CRY BLUUD!!...SPITS

Interesting a post from 2014

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has disclosed that only three monarchs in Yorubaland are upright, describing others as “useless”.

The former governor of Lagos State made this declaration on Friday in Ijebu-Ode during a special prayer session held at the Central Mosque in the city to mark the 80th birthday of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Ogbagba II. Tinubu extolled the doggedness of the paramount ruler.

Speaking at the event, Tinubu, who returned to the country because of the occasion, urged the monarch not to allow some politicians hijack his birthday celebration and turn it into a political platform for campaign.

Tinubu narrated that, “I remember in 1991, 1992 and 1993 during the military junta, when the Yoruba was the target of the then government. They thought they could silence you, they planned to kill you, they planned to remove you through a local government, but they failed. They did it to Sultan of Sokoto and they succeeded.

“You stood by us, you stood by the truth and despite all humiliation, depression and attack, you remained resolute.

“I will never forget when you invited us to your palace for one of our meetings. When we got there and we were about to commence our meeting, we were told that soldiers have surrounded the palace with guns. You told us then that there was no problem and we should continue our meeting.

“You said they don’t know that there are many ways into the palace. After our meeting, you opened another door for us and nothing happened to us.

“You are not part of the useless Obas in Yorubaland who will sell out, we know them and it is not yet time to mention names. In Yorubaland today, you are the best monarch and that is not contestable. The good Obas’ in Yorubaland, who are forthright, firm and stand by the truth are not up to five, they are just three. Oba Awujale, Oba Akiolu and another. May you live long in good health and abundant God blessing.”

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Official report from 2015

Just few days ago, Atiku Abubakar defected to APC from PDP, NLM can authoritatively reveal the deal that made it possible.

An aggrieved chieftain of APC (a supporter of Buhari), who doesn’t want his name in print, revealed to NLM members in Lagos State that Atiku’s defection to APC has really changed the game plan for 2015 election which would definitely cost APC dearly.

According to him, “for sometime now, APC has been strategizing on the following candidates with Buhari at the fore-front in the 2015 equation”:

1. Buhari/Fashola
2. Kwankwaso/Amaechi
3. Tambuwal/Okorocha

This has been the arrangement until Atiku started his widely consultation and met Tinubu in a secret meeting in Lagos and the game changed.

In his words “Atiku met Tinubu in a secret meeting in Lagos and told him pointblank that he is not joining APC to become an ordinary member, but to be the party flag-bearer. Tinubu didn’t buy into the idea initially until he made him an offer and a deal was struck.

Tinubu then told him that APC caucus would meet to pick a running mate between Fashola and Amaechi to pair with him. This was rejected outrightly by Atiku, reason being that the N5 billion is to settle for any Yoruba candidate APC is considering and for Amaechi, he won’t like him to be his VP because of his recklessness and stubbornness. That he would rather opt for Adams Oshiomhole. This was how Oshiomhole came into the 2015 equation.

However, Tinubu directed Fashola to make the statement where he said “if Adams Oshiomhole was nominated as the APC presidential flag-bearer, he would vote for him.”

The camp of Gen. Buhari is very angry with this development and are considering their next plan of action of either to pull out from the merger because Gen. Buhari must run in 2015 election.

According to the APC Chieftain, he said “Tinubu has forgotten that Gen. Buhari polled over 12 million votes with an unknown CPC in the last general election which Atiku in his widest dream cannot do.” That if they go ahead to field Atiku, Buhari’s supporters will definitely pull out because there is no point to support a man (Atiku) with a question mark and no electoral values”, he concludes.

pol23:
The God of Lagos is greedy…
As against the general assumption that Tinubu built Lagos,Lagos wasn’t built by Tinubu ,see the thread here : https://www.nairaland.com/7130396/lagos-isnt-tinubus-achievement

Yeah

Former chief executives, union and group of retirees from the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) yesterday rose stoutly against an attempt by former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i to reject the blame for the destruction of the telecommunications monopoly, urging the Federal Government to hold the former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) solely responsible for this monumental national loss.

One of the former managing directors of MTEL, the GSM arm of NITEL, Mr. Kunle Bello, who voluntarily resigned so he could avoid the touted new managers, Pentascope, said he foresaw the collapse of NITEL/MTEL due to insincere and inconsistent implementation of policies by the El-Rufa’i-led BPE. He described the Pentascope management brought in by El-Rufa’i as an “irredeemable misfortune” upon the telecommunications industry and an unmitigated disaster on NITEL/MTEL staff, “who have been dying one after another” due to non-payment of their pensions.

Bello, an ITU telecommunications engineer, said Pentascope allegedly squandered more than N100 billion of NITEL’s hard-earned income, besides the loss of revenue without adding a single telephone line. He challenged the judicial and executive arms of government to rise to the occasion to absolve themselves of blame by going after the perpetrators of the fraud. In a statement signed and issued by the group of retirees in Abuja yesterday, they disagreed with the claim in a widely-circulated statement by El-Rufa’i that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar approved the appointment of Pentascope, the failed management consultant hired to manage NITEL in 2003.

The former workers who said they held El-Rufa’i responsible not only for the collapse of NITEL, but also the destruction of their careers, said the issue at stake is beyond the debate of who signed and who did not sign. “The issue is who issued or originated the memorandum to the National Council on Privatization (NCP)? How did El-Rufa’i, as DG, BPE, pick Pentascope to manage NITEL?” The retirees accused El-Rufa’i of misleading, not only the NCP, but the entire Federal Government by presenting Pentascope as a capable management company that could turn around NITEL.

One of such former employees, Michael Awos, who put in 30 years as a technical staff beginning with the defunct P & T, said that Pentascope was brought purposely to “siphon money and kill this organisation (NITEL) they had spent all their lives to build. “He allegedly broke and twisted all the rules to make Pentascope win. Penstascope was one and the same with El-Rufa’i. The face of Pentascope was represented by El-Rufai’s two closest friends Mr. Hassan Musa Usman and Tijjani Abdullahi. Pentascope in Holland was a one-man office. It had a single room as office. Its rolling mast was on top of a church building. The retirees also said that the true story of the destruction of their national carrier was revealed in two reports by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Quoting from the report, the retirees said that “rather than using Atiku as scape goat for the collapse of NITEL to serve his hidden agenda, the concerned group of former NITEL workers advised El-Rufa’i to be honourable enough to accept the responsibility for railroading and blackmailing the former NITEL board and the privatization council into approving a contract that had short-changed Nigerians and children yet unborn.

According to these former NITEL workers who described themselves as the “human debris of the destruction wrought on NITEL by El-Rufai’s selfish and callous agenda to short-change Nigerians,” the former BPE DG should apologize to Nigerians for his misdeeds.

They recalled that in May 2003, the House of Representatives exposed the underbelly of El-Rufai’s alleged hypocrisy to mislead government and Nigerians about the Pentascope management contract. The committee they said, found that the evaluation of the bids was “suspect” and that Pentascope lied on its true legal status and origin, which the group said El-Rufa’i allegedly covered up. The former NITEL workers said the House found that Pentascope was supposedly registered on January 1, 2002, which was a public holiday in European countries. Despite the alleged inaccuracies and lies by Pentascope, the group accused El-Rufa’i of imposing the Dutch company on a hostile NITEL board, its workers and Nigerians.

According to the group, the Pentascope’s alleged misadventure led to NITEL’s profits nose-diving from N15 billion in 2002 and turned it into a loss of N19 billion in 2003. The group, quoting the House Communications Committee report, also said that NITEL’s turnover dropped from N53 billion to N41 billion. Despite the dramatic drop in turnover under Pentascope management, the group alleged that direct and overhead costs increased from N21.3 billion to N26.3 billion and from N19.4 billion to N30 billion. The NITEL former staff advised El-Rufa’i to focus on these issues rather than using others as a scapegoat, saying that it is not uncommon for leaders to be misled by clever liars into signing something that turned out to be fraudulently arranged to produce a desired outcome.

The retired NITEL workers wondered why El-Rufa’i thinks the House, the former NITEL board and others that exposed the fraudulent process of handing over NITEL to Pentascope were wrong but he was right. Comrade Elias Kazzah, National Adviser of the Senoir Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations (SSACTC) and President of NITEL unit of the association, also called on El-Rufa’I to shut up on account of his alleged mismanagement of the Pentascope transaction that led to the demise of the company. He said that NITEL was so commercially viable that it contributed to NIPOST and provided support to the ECOMOG troops in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

He recalled that the BPE under El-Rufa’i rebuffed other options put on the table for revamping NITEL even though they had failed at six previous attempts at addressing the NITEL’s imbroglio. Comrade Kazzah regretted El-Rufa’i’s handling of the controversial management contract, insisting that the “coming of Pentascope was through the backdoor.”

According to him, to demonstrate its reservation against the deal, NITEL workers blocked the gates of Transcorp Hilton venue of the signing of the management contract between BPE and Pentascope, but claimed that El-Rufa’i surreptitiously smuggled the parties to the deal through the back. He noted that Pentascope came on board with the preconceived agenda to have a run on NITEL’s the huge cash, both local and foreign currencies at that time and to disorganise and frustrate the network. Meanwhile, a former Managing Director of NITEL, Prof. Buba Bajoga, who agreed to speak on record, decried the destruction of NITEL as “very painful.”

He said by the time he left the organization as its head in 2000, NITEL was a very viable commercial organization. “We approved the payment of dividends to government and I remember that I left N15 billion and U.S. Dollar 200 million in the coffers of the organization,” he said. Bajoga said NITEL made more profit than most banks. “We paid all our bills and were financing all our projects,” he added.

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New York Reporters is in possession of a shocking interview by Ex-BOKO HARAM Leader, Sheik Sani Haliru (Now Brother Paul Haliru) who has now converted to the Christian faith after 44 years as a Muslim Jihadist revealed the full list of Boko Haram Sponsor in Nigeria today. Haliru list include the following: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami, Abubakar, Cletus Okar, IBB, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few..”, he said.

Curiously he added,”that the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria. These agents are in the military, Police, CBN, and others, Republic Reporters gathered.

Sheik Sani Haliru: “Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja
(Nigeria’s capital)…” he said.

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Candid Interview with a former BOKO HARAM Leader, Sheik Sani Haliru (Now Brother Paul Haliru) who has now converted to the Christian faith after 44 years as a Muslim Jihadist hardliner revealed the full list of Boko Haram Sponsor!!!

Question: Who are you and where are you from?
Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Borno State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.

Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?

A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.

Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?

A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died.
Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor?

A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my
dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?

A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.

Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?

A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.

Q: Can you please name them?

A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.

Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?

A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.

Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then.

Q: Just mention but a few names.

A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.

Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?

A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya.

Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.

Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.

A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.

Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man?

A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.

Q: Did you say six hundred?

A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja
(Nigeria’s capital).

Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?

A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.

Q: So how can you describe IBB?

A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.

Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?

A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.

Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.

A: Yes, I was.

Q: Under what group?

A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.

Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?

A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started when he killed Dele Giwa. I have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram.

princeabdul:
A vote for Tinubu is a vote to eradicate poverty and insecurity.Vote BAT vote APC

Read am line by line if lie dey talk am

Read line by line slowly this is interesting

The massive looting of Lagos state by the Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reached monumental proportion. Tinubu whose companies recently conered a multi billion road construction job in Ogun State, has in his pocket all the juicy contract in all the Action Congress’ states.

In retrospect, it might be difficult to come to terms with the fact that an individual could hold the entire south west to ransom. There is no doubt that Tinubu has succeeded in buying the Lagos State government, and he has done this using government funds.
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Whenever someone in Lagos begins to wonder where their 4th mainland bridge went, or what was the fate of the pipe-borne water project, or even where the schools and hospitals had vanished to, there is a silence that contains it all. The largest landlord in Lagos has done as he has pleased, and the rest of the state just has to deal with it. For instance: Number 4, Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi: A 5-bedroom detached house on one acre of land which was originally the Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979, but which now belongs to Tinubu. The certificate of occupancy of the property valued at N450 million was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office.

Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc Guest House. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public funds to rebuild and renovate it. The Lagos State Government bought the property and paid an undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million.

The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450 million, purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after Tinubu left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before leaving office.

The 250-hectare land valued at about N35billion and strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa Local Government but was stolen by Tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd – a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu – to develop as Royal Garden Housing Estate at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which is partly- owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project.

The prime land of 157 hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Ibukun Fakeye – his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.

The 14-hectare Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.

While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos State Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by Tinubu, aided by Fashola.

The choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion Naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also, the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front – Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices:

• The 3.8-hectare of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion.

• The fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million

• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for a low-cost housing scheme valued at N5billion

• The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion.

• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million.
Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of Chagouri & Chagouri and Hitech Construction Ltd at a ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Government Reservation Area Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or were unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the skyrocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the Polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarters of Television Continental (TVC), which is owned by him, is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

Tinubu solely sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.

Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu, built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area.

Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu, built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe express road, with Lagos State funds and has now converted it to personal use.

Tinubu owns the Fara Park Estate and the Beach Wood Estate both in Lekki.

The Critical Care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, built and equipped with state funds, is now owned personally by Tinubu. He has put one Dr. Sikiru Tinubu, (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the State Government for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.

Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Governor Tinubu and incumbent Governor Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa, now a Senator, and Mrs. Awofisayo were the conduits through which these acts were being perpetrated. Both were also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.

Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for “jobs well done” or for being privy to sensitive information, notably:

(a) Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, was sold a whole house on Alexander Road, Ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a give-away price.

(b) Rauf Aregbesola, Osun State Governor, who was a former Commissioner in Lagos as well as Muiz Banire, also a former commissioner, got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola Street, GRA Ikeja for their “good job” while serving under Tinubu.

(c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun, both former commissioners, were sold houses on Iru Close, and another location in old Ikoyi at give-away prices by Tinubu.

DSC7:
Tinubu is Nigeria's Pablo Escobar....

Say No To Drugs...

Take it easy oo

Nope it’s all over the internet

SNEFF:
Tribalism at its peak !!

You are welcome my friend

doggedfighter:
Alright, will do so.

Thanks !

doggedfighter:
What kind of epistle is this?







Is this a thesis ?

Nope just google “Chicago drug 1993 case+Tinubu “

Someone very old trying to save a country lol and young people are watching

StormpyBee:
Even with this facts that you have brought forward.

I am wondering how 80 years old man will drive Nigeria into the promised land or the other one that lives in Dubai.

Vote Peter Obi!
Vote Labour Party!
Vote wisely!

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Despite his failing health and political reputation in Nigeria as the
national leader of All Progressive Congress, APC, former Lagos State
Governor, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, is still being monitored, questioned and
interrogated frequently upon arrival in the United States over drug crimes
committed in that country.

Tinubu was indicted for Cocaine, Herroine and Gun crimes and forfeited
$460,000.00 in the early 1990’s.

Cocaine, Heroine, Guns and other paraphernalia used in running the drug
business were all recovered from the Tinubu-led drug cartel in Chicago in
the early 1993.

“He is still a suspect and the case against him is not yet closed. It can
be reopened anytime even though he has forfeited proceeds from the crime,”
a U.S Security source told Pointblanknews.com

Sources said, “Even if today Tinubu decides to visit the United States
again, he would be questioned. 

“His crime is not one that
can be swept under the carpet just like that. 



“The usual suspicion by the United States and other countries is that once
you have a criminal record, you must be monitored properly in order to
forestall you committing the same crime again.”


Tinubu’s drug crime life has refused to go away from the U.S authorities
even as mainstream media houses in Nigeria have been largely compromised
and would not report the atrocities and conviction of the APC leader.

The APC leader is currently joggling his political cards, seeking to
anoint a Governor in Lagos State and a Presidential flag bearer for his
party despite his indictment for drug crimes in the United States.

According to the document, signed by a former United States Government
Narcotics Attache in its embassy in Nigeria, Andre W. Kellum, Tinubu
operated an organisation that distributed cocaine.

Kellum who signed the U.S documents while serving in Nigeria, is now
Regional Director for the Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA, in Bangkok,
Thailand. 



Kellum said that though Tinubu was not subjected to criminal prosecution,
the fact that he acceded to forfeiting funds to the United States
Government was on its own a conviction. 



Kellum’s letter was a response to a petition pertaining to Tinubu’s
suitability to stand for re-election in 2003 as the governor of Lagos
State. 



The petitioner said that Tinubu, owing to his conviction in the United
States for running a drug cartel, was not suitable to stand for election
in Nigeria. 


In the letter dated April 9, 2003, addressed to the former Chairman,
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Bello Lafiaji, Kellum
wrote,
“After consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of
International Affairs (OIA), this is in response to the above referenced
matter, regarding Bola Ahmed TINUBU (emphasis that of Kellum).




“Pursuant to the aforementioned request, the Lagos, Nigeria Country Office
(LNCO) of the Drug Enforcement Administration immediately contacted
DOJ/OIA officials. Copies of documents received by the LNCO from the NDLEA
were forwarded to these officials for verification. 



“As such, please note that paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of the complaint
indicates that persons named therein operated an organisation that
distributed heroin and the proceeds of that illegal distribution were in
the subject acounts to be forfeited. The complaint references U.S.
(criminal) money laundering and (criminal) drug statutes as the authority
under which the forfeiture occurs. Nevertheless, note that the complaint
in this civil action identifies the funds as the defendant (Tinubu), not
the account holders. 



“Likewise, the Decree of Forfeiture, signed by a U.S. District Judge,
identifies the criminal statutory authority for the civil forfeiture of
the funds without regard to whether there is a corresponding criminal
prosecution. 



“The facts revealed in the U.S. Investigation of the funds and their
source are detailed in the affidavit filed by the Internal Revenue
Service. 

In the letter from the NDLEA that resulted in
Kellum’s reaction, the lead anti-narcotic agency in Nigeria said that the
conclusion it could draw was that Tinubu’s drug case was yet to be closed
by the United States. 



The letter, in its opinion section, noted, “Former paragraph 6 above,
Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu was involved in Money Laundering Transactions
along with Mueez Adegboya Akande and Abiodun Agbele in the United States
of America. 



“Even though he was not charged to court, he had to compromise the
case. Otherwise, he would have lost the whole money. 



“Arising from the case, Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu forfeited 460,000 US
dollars to the United States Government being proceeds of narcotic
trafficking or property involved in financial transactions in violation of
18 USO 1956 and 1957 and therefore was forfeitable to the United States
(emphasis that of the NDLEA).



“It is pertinent to note that the funds held by Citi bank which was
released to Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the action filed against these
funds held in the said accounts was dismissed with prejudice. This in
effect means the case has not been closed (emphasis that of NDLEA) and
could be reopened at any time by the United States Government.”




The opinion formed by the NDLEA on the issue as a result of Kellum’s
letter, arose from a petition by one of the governorship aspirants in
Lagos State in 2003, Sir Babatunde Abayomi Olowu, that Tinubu was not fit
to stand for the governorship based on his conviction on drug offences in
the United States. 



The NDLEA said that though Olowu’s petition, dated January 16, 2003 raised
several grounds for Tinubu to be prevented from contesting, the agency
noted that the aspect in which it was interested was that between 1988 and
1993, the former governor was involved in narcotics trafficking and money
laundering. 

It said that upon receipt of the petition, it
sent copies of the court that indicted Tinubu to the DEA in Nigeria for
assitance. 

It said the DEA, through Kellum, replied on April 9, 2003, confirming the
existence of such proceedings. 





The NDLEA said based on the report, it established that: 



(a) That there was in fact a proceeding in the United States
District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division in 1993 in
which the United States of America was the Plaintiff and the funds in 10
accounts held by Governor Bola Tinubu and Compass Finance and Investment
Co. at First Heritage Bank and Citi Bank International in the United
States were the Defendants. 



(b) The substance of the application filed by the United States Attorney
was “This is an in rem forfeiture case brought pursuant to 22 U.S.C.
Section 881 and 18 U.S.C. Section 981 which provides for the forfeiture of
property representing the proceeds of drug trafficking and property
involved in money laundering.” 



( c ) Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu defended the said publication through his
counsel Patrick S. Coffey and there was a stipulation and compromise
settlement of claims to the funds held by Heritage Bank and Citi Bank.




(d) The United States and the Individual Claimants i.e. Governor
Ahmed Bola Tinubu and others agreed to settle and to compromise this
action upon terms previously presented to the court. 



(e) The court made the following findings “The United States filed a
verified complaint for forfeitures against the funds in the above
captioned defendant accounts because there was probable cause to believe
that the property represented proceeds of narcotics traficking or was
property involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C.

In 1956 and 1957 and therefore was forfeitable to the United States
pursuant to 21 U.S.C. Section 881 (a) 6 and 18 U.S.C. 981. The funds in
the defendant accounts were seized initially by seizure warrants.”




(f) From the findings of the court, “Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu has
admitted and acknowledged that the funds traced to his account represented
proceeds of narcotics trafficking or was property involved in financial
transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956 and 1957 and therefore was
forfeitable to the United States pursuant to 21 U.S.C. Section 881 (a) and
18 U.S.C. 981. The funds in the defendants acounts were seized initially
by seizure warrants.” 



(g) Following from (f) above, Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu has also admitted
that he was involved in laundering proceeds of drug trafficking in the
United States of America and the proceeds of such illicit drugs or money
laundered in the sun of 460,000 US dollars be forfeited to the United
States Government. 



(h) Although Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu was not charged to court for
trafficking in narcotics, he was nonetheless indicted for laundering
proceeds of drug trafficking being financial transactions forfeitable to
the United States Government. 



(i) Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu opted for settlement so that he would not
forfeit the whole money. He would have forfeited the whole money if the
mater had gone through full trial. 



(j) Under the Nigerian law, it is possible to forfeit property believed to
be proceeds of trafficking in narcotic drugs even if the suspect has not
been convicted and is discharged by the court on technical grounds.




(k) Such a person whose property has been forfeited on grounds of being
proceeds of drug trafficking will be classified as a baron or money
launderer and certainly will be indexed and put on watchlist.




(l) From the above, if Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu is not the incumbent
Executive Governor of Lagos State he would have been invited for interview
to shed light on the facts admitted by him in this case. 



The NDLEA, in a further note, said that at the time of this transaction,
Tinubu was a staff of Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited, with a monthly take home
pays of $2,400. 



The note said that despite the amount Tinubu receives, he completed a
credit application for a loan of $8,000 to buy a car on January 6, 1990.




He reportedly said in the application that his only source of income was
from his job with Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited. 



The note said that on November 20, 1990, one Abiodun Agbele, whom Tinubu
said is known to him, was arrested after selling one ounce of white heroin
to an undercover agent for $7,000. 



Agbele was described as an agent of Mueez A. Akande in the distribution of
heroin in the United States. 

The note added, “Interrogation
of the said Agbele and further investigations revealed the identity of the
other individuals, including relatives who have worked for Akande with
various duties in the distribution organisation. One of these individuals
has been identified by the investigation as Bola Tinubu. 



“Governor Tinubu did not file any document to explain the source of
money totalling over 1.4 million dollars which was traced to his account
which was clearly above his means of income. 



“Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu was in the habit of using different
residential addresses for different transactions apparently not to leave
traces.”



In its conclusion, the NDLEA said of Tinubu, “Even though he
was not charged to court, he had to compromise the case. Otherwise, he
would have lost the whole money…. 



“It is pertinent to note that the funds held by Citi bank which was
released to Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the action filed against these
funds held in the said accounts was dismissed with prejudice. This in
effect means the case has not been closed and could be reopened at any
time by the United States Government.”

John A. Nordberg of the United States District Court, Northern District of
Illinois, Eastern Division, ordered the forfeiture of the huge sums, found
in 10 of Tinubu’s accounts, believed to be proceeds of illicit drug trade.

The court, in the order given on October 4, 1993, said the drug deal,
specifically in white heroin, involved Tinubu; his wife, Oluremi; and
three of his family members. 



The accounts from which the funds were seized included First Heritage Bank
(263226700), Citi International Bank (39483134, 39483396, 4650279566,
00400200, 39936404, 39936383, 52050-89451952, 52050-89451952 and
52050-89451953). 



According to a Special Agent of the United States Criminal Investigation
Service, Kevin Moss, the DEA became involved in the investigation of a
white heroin network operating in Chicago, Illinois (where Tinubu alleged
he got a university certificate, which became a source of controversy
while he was in office) and Hammond, Indiana in 1988. 



Cocaine, heroin, guns and other paraphernalia used for running the drug
cartel were recovered by the investigators. 



The affidavit added, “The investigation disclosed that an individual known
as Lee Andrew Edwards was a source of white heroin. Edwards is currently
incarcerated for attempting to murder a federal agent while the agent was
executing a search warrant. 



“Source A provided reliable information about Lee Andrew Edwards including
the identity of a telephone number” and huge profits that Agbele admitted
“he often wired to bank accounts on behalf of Akande.” 



Agbele, Moss said, “controlled the operation of the white heroin
distribution network from Nigeria in conjunction with other individuals in
Nigeria and the United States. Much of the business, at the time the
operation flourished, was conducted by telephone, although, according to
Agbele, Akande occasionally travelled to the United States under an
assumed name to retrieve portions of the drug profits. 



“During the course of the investigation, DEA agents learned that in
November 1986, Akande completed a lease application for an apartment on
which he listed his employment as an account representative for Globe-Link
International. Akande listed his address as 7504 South Stewart Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois and a former address as 7527 North Sheridan Road also in
Chicago. On the application, Akande listed … as his spouse and his
current landlord was identified as Christmas Schaffer. 



“Further investigation by DEA disclosed that Agbele also completed a lease
application for an apartment located at 4050 W. 115th Street, Chicago,
Illinois. In the application, Agbele stated that he was employed by
Globe-Link as a sales representative. The investigators have confirmed
that Akande maintained an apartment in this complex. 



“This investigation has disclosed the identity of other individuals,
including relatives, who have worked for Akande with various duties in the
distribution organisation. One of these individuals has been identified by
the investigation as Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 



“According to bank records from the First Heritage Bank, Country Club
Hills, Illinois, Tinubu opened an individual money market account and a
“NOW” account in December 1989. In the application, Tinubu stated that his
address was 704 South Stewart, Chicago, Illinois. This is the same address
used previously by Akande and Globe-Link. Upon opening this account,
Tinubu deposited $1,000 in traveller’s cheque. 



“Bank records disclosed that five days after the account was opened, on
January 4, 1990, $80,000 was deposited into the NOW account at First
Heritage Bank by wire transfer through First Chicago from Banc One
Houston. The transaction was completed at the direction of Akande who
resided at 7930 Corporate Drive. Akande previously used this address.
Further, the investigation disclosed through a review of bank records that
an individual named Akande had three accounts at Banc One. 



“According to bank employees, when Tinubu came to First Heritage Bank in
December 1989 to open the accounts, he was introduced to them by Akande
who at that time maintained an account at the bank. 





“According to bank records, Tinubu also opened a joint checking account in
his name and the name of his wife. The wife previously opened a joint bank
account also at this bank with Akande, …the wife of Akande