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1vandragon:
Tinubu’s alleged drug case takes new twist as US firm hints at video evidence

A United States-based political advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has hinted at providing video evidence in the alleged drug trafficking case linked to Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu.

Von Batten-Montague-York disclosed this in a post on its verified X handle on Monday.

The firm expressed the belief that the video evidence would challenge President Tinubu’s attempt to invoke privacy protections over Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, records concerning his alleged drug-trafficking past.

“We are amending our Supplemental Notice of Evidentiary Exhibits to the US court to include the attached video transcript. The video is really extraordinary.

“At an All Progressives Congress, APC, political event, Mr Adewale Tinubu, President Tinubu’s reported nephew, said, ‘I did that case in Chicago. It was one of my first legal matters,’ and described personally urging Tinubu to settle.

“Yet the official court record identifies Patrick S. Coffey, Esq. as the attorney representing President Tinubu in that case. No court appearance, pleading, signature, or other filing identifies Mr Adewale Tinubu as counsel in the proceeding. Not a single record.

“Why does this matter? First, court records show that Mr Adewale Tinubu’s account is false. Second, the video shows, in real time, the falsification of established facts to deceive the Nigerian public. Facts President Tinubu now claims are private. Third, President Tinubu is asking the court to protect his alleged heroin-trafficking records from the public. Yet his own nephew publicly discussed the Chicago proceeding at a political campaign event while Tinubu was present.

“President Tinubu cannot have it both ways. US courts have long recognized that voluntary public disclosure can diminish the privacy interest that Exemption 7(C) protects. The FBI and DEA must come to the realization that President Tinubu is a liability and that his alleged drug-trafficking records are just another Epstein file.

“Whether under the current Republican administration or a future Democrat administration, those files will eventually be released to the public,” the firm tweeted.

https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/07/tinubus-alleged-drug-case-takes-new-twist-as-us-firm-hints-at-video-evidence/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews#google_vignette

The last paragraph of this post that i copied nd pasted below simply shows that they re not after any release f the file but to damage Tinubus name as much as they can and as much as some people can cry blood over the noise..

“Whether under the current Republican administration or a future Democrat administration, those files will eventually be released to the public,” the firm tweeted

helinues:
So Apc attacked the same journalist that cover their event.

Is it that some of you don't bother to reason things logically before dropping your rubbish?

Yoh must really have time to reply many low lives in this forum!!! They are jonzed

BrokenTV:
You ended up not making any sense.

Yeah for low IQ people

BrokenTV:
I did not want to watch the video before but seeing this I was forced to watch the video, Sai Atiku was loud and clear. Tinubu is going no where, Tinubu government is nothing but a disaster.

You people are supposed to have grown better than this in IQ...all these things are easy to achieve in politics....

FreeIgboho:
The money is N416K
How much is an IPhone 12?

That's not how to measure purchasing power.

The money only bought two bags of cements then.
If it's 416k in today's money how many bags of cements would that have bought?!

ManknowThyself:
Low self-esteem,trauma bonding and the scarcity mindset of getting another woman to cherish and respect them for who they are.

Real men never hesitate to walk away when narcissistic women obviously disrespectful to who they truly are as a man.

Some are waiting for their children to grow a little more

BlackViper:
It was actually a lot, even then. You could buy several bags of rice with N20 back then.

Not a lot. A bag of cement in 1976 was #10 at the late 70s.

Which judge takes bribe because of what can't buy them an equivalent of an iPhone 12??

Corruption was just highly frowned at . There were not much money in the system. People were poor. Money has not been demonized and seen as a vehicle for everything.

And the cardinal to measure success back then wasn't always money but integrity and talling academic achievements.

This is falsely incoherent....Ghana has about 35 million in head population..$1.2B divide by that gives you about just $35 per head per capita equivalent per annum

How did Obi get $41M per head?...He talks too much. It is giving brain fog and mismatch. Thus, he becomes inconsistent with his unfounded assertion...He does alot of cramming and he tends to be forgetful of them by the time he reels out his stored info

HAVING Noted these, Ghanaians have outbound numbers of medical tourists in Africa... However, The medical system in nigeria is a mess right now.
It needs alot of constant boosting, upgrading, standardization, and non stop financing...Until one experiences it, one wont know how bad it is..Especially on terminal and life threatening illnesses nd diseases...

Zonefree:
I kid you not, Verydarkman cannot win ward chairmanship in his community. You think politics is to set camera and ring light. If you're in doubt, ask Chief priest.

Stop thinking like this...

Ogabode:
I am beginning to like Atiku

Ah!!!!

So he's saying their almighty American system is as corrupt as other countries they designate?? Or is Tinubu paying the money to ghosts?

Basic123:
I am a Tinubu supporter but I hate Onannuga or whatever.


He gives people unnecessary relevance.


When Atiku replies,he will attack the president not him.

Atiku will just be feeling himself while attacking the president as if them be mate

And his reply or counter attack is always very weak and docile. He particularly lacks deep knowledge of whatever he wants to defend and doesn't research much. Hes an erudite journalist but still operates based his strategies on the traditional methodology.

anonimi:
If you don’t understand something then just say so and take the time to learn about it.

Do you think it’s wrong to do that

He wont remove it, you can keep studying your brochure and cry more under my post as usual...I maintain it he wont remove it...it is a conduit for them.

Atiku of all people will remove subsidy my foot!!!!

Even though Atiku wont remove subsidy, he just wants to use it to garner votes, but i must say that for the first time he got his campaign strategy point right...It really unseats many powers...It is getting alot of buzz and that is why Atikus camp are mesmerizing it more

CERTAINTY... Amaechi doesnt believe in Atiku. He doesnt buy into Atiku leading him but he has no choice...He is too ambitious to be made a VP...


Worse enough he thinks highly of himself just like Ogbeni Rauf whose political strength has diminished badly...

Goo0dHardDick:
Exactly why I said no serious minded business man will try such. It's for only unserious people who uses WhatsApp for cruise and nothing else.

Imagine having updated goods or market prices, receipts, invoices, list of goods with their prices etc all on your WhatsApp messages, probably sent to you from the company or your dealer and then it all disappears within 24hrs or 7 days? Lol.

So one would have to contact his or her dealer or company to resend the prices and pictures again? No company or dealer will take such a person serious in life. That's the height of unseriousness.

However, I'm speaking from a business standpoint. I don't know about other people's reasons for doing such!

Whatsapp is not meant for only serious business..all sorts of people use it... You are right in some way, even business people can use the feature when they want to talk to their concubines, pimps, hooks and some dirty stuffs and its still business because money and other transactions will transpire during these frames...The point is that you should know when and what to use the feature(for)
cultists will use it, bandits even will use it...it is an avenue for communication and there are serious businesses that must not see the light of a third party reader and must be wiped with timing

if people wont need it, the feature wont be there...some people just hate seeing numerous messages that are not useful for anything than just that moment..

Do the lawyers still call themselves learned colleagues". So they pay that their yearly dues to invite VDM? God is good

jmoore:
Bayo Onanuga is now the president of Nigeria.


Tinubu is in the bunker. He didn't said that by himself.

I am sure u didnt know the meaning of bunker until your lord and saviour used it after he had heard it somewhere ELSE because his IQ will never decipher such words...However, your English speaks volume

lack of sufficient oxygen....separate them and have peace...If t is disease the number of death would be more than that

AMINDA:
Meanwhile, passengers have been stuck on the Benin-Agbor-Asaba road for 3 days now and counting. "Nutty" professor is falling over himself to please the tin-god.

Spot the difference. Benin City, Nigeria 2026 VS New York City, USA 1926

Any post that I see with Tinubu I always expect yoh to come and cry as usual. Your cry isn’t a loud one. It’s always solemnized.

However, it looks like u don’t leave the corners of your house. U stay there day in and out to cry. That road is under Re- construction. I don’t think you expect it to complete within 1 month

DjAndroid:
Na so I jam one mature Yoruba lady in a matchmaking video on tiktok. She said she was 43 and was seriously looking for a husband. We chatted briefly on tiktok then moved to WhatsApp. When I told her I am civil servant, she stopped talking. Then I called her, she said: "I cannot date a civil servant, you will have nothing to offer me. Manage your salary with your family"

I shock ooo. So she been dey find sugar daddy at 43? But she told everyone was looking for a husband.

Na so I tell am say if had a family, I would not be looking for her. And that I was looking for a wife, not a side chick and that if I was looking for a side chick, I would not go for a 43 year old woman.

It’s not a bad thing to have standards. That’s her standard. Age doesn’t make one change standards. The problem will be if she’s not up to the standard she’s looking for. Eg.
If she’s one struggling half educated POS operator while her standard is to find a well established well educated cars dealer.

nairalanda1:
Just for fun, let him compare hardship under Jonathan and under IBB, or Shagari, or even the first republic.

I don't like these comparisons. Largely because they obscure a crucial aspect of NIgeria's problem...lack of a good enough indigenous productive capacity that yields jobs, investment, and more revenue, and even better government.(because why would government run on industries do things that would do away with the goose that lays the golden egg). Instead it celebrates economic growth that was in the long run unsustainable because at the end it was based on high oil prices....

I have been seeing this type of comparison for decades. Back in the 1990's Nigerians used to look back at the 1970's with nostalgia. I can even recall my grandfather talking about how he bought cement for 5 shillings in 1969! And so forth.

NIgerians should again look for a leader who would fight corruption, AND develop local indigenous productivity. Not unsustainable economic growth that depends on oyel.

Yeah, back in the 1970's a car cost N4000, a loaf of bread cost 50 KOBO, maltina cost 45 kobo and we was living the life...and we could go to leventis and buy foreign stuff cheap.

Anyway, at the end people go vote for tinubu, not for a serious minded leader that would give us sustainable economic growth.

In 1970 Lanre Adepoju sang " ilu le" and that depicted the hardship that was faced by the citizens. It was further corroborated by Dr. victor Olaiya around 73 or so when he sang "ilu Le o ko sowo lode"

Fela sang " why black man dey suffer" in 1970 and Sikiru Ayinde barrister also did his own in that same era when he said "Omo Nigeria ibo la n lo oo, Oselu Nigeria nibo le n kowo wa re"

Meanwhile, all these times of their songs we had Dunlop, Michelin, livers brothers, Leventis, bata, and so many conglomerates in the country. Yet those songs happened. I even watched old interviews of many people telling us how hard Nigeria was then.

All of them and many others sang about how bd Nigeria was and it catapulted till 80s, 90s and till today.

The point is that Nigerians have always been found complaining.

Most of the coups that were plotted, the revolutionaries cited economic hardship, among others as their reasons.

Nigerians are like this! Things are hard of course but majority of Nigerians have always acted like it's always been hard govt in govt out!

Yari right now looks probably like the richest politician fromthe North and one of the most respected politicians from the north..

He's not just a Dg, strategically, a power broker for the Northerners

Uzodima is a silent mover.

na social media go destroy nigeria...I watched the analysis of BKO ...IT was so surprising how they turned i upside down and created a narrative that took over every gullible ones minds including the ever crying ever complaining ones on nairaland who dance and drink to every bad news and created bad ones in good news...

geoworldedu:
Oga, na true tok e tok o. The North is the most populated and it's obvious you can only win through them. Check how Tinubu won last election, it was through the North.


Bring Back Our Subsidy o.

It is not true...

He wont bring back any subsidy...He only wants to play politics...All politicians love money..Atiku has been contesting since 1992. He needs his money back...ONCE he sees the money beiong generated via subsidy removal, he wont dare remove it...It is a good conduit.. even for this govt

Atiku believes so much that anyone who will win must win through the North...This same mentality will deny him his long term ambition again....

"A man who could not win without the support of Northerners"- Atiku


I expect another hot jab from the never-resting Baba Iyabo himself ..maybe this time a can of worm.

tor

AMINDA:
Tinubu does not trust Adeleke's endorsement. He will ask Oyetola to go to court so they can continue to put pressure on Adeleke until the very end. Cunnyman die, cunnyman bury am!

Many times , in a bid to act as though in the know of it all you sound like someone who's clever by half.

Of course you know ur right from your left but I advise to channel it properly. You should not be commenting on every topic impulsively.

anonimi:
Obasanjo was right about Tinubu being a dangerous man who would destroy Nigeria and our democracy.

The irony is how the same man unknowingly helped Tinubu to become president. Do you think that is just because of Baba Iyabo’s hatred for Atiku and Jonathan who are better administrators than him

You lie so much with disdain. The idiosyncrasies in your your assertion smells rotten eggs. Is it the "my watch" that I have? From page 99 he was talking about his journey to the Uk. Where exactly did he talk about Tinubu in page 103? You people lie with so much recklessness.