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enemyofprogress:
Tinubu’s Washington Problem Is Real, and No London Photo-Op Can Save Him

By Kio Amachree

Let us stop pretending that all is well.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a serious problem in Washington, and it is getting worse.

First came the U.S. court orders. In April 2025, a federal judge ordered the FBI and DEA to release records tied to Tinubu. Then in February 2026, Judge Beryl Howell lost patience with the delays, rebuked the agencies, demanded sworn explanations, imposed a release timetable, and ordered continuing status reports. That is not a trivial development. That is a sign that this matter is alive, active, and serious. 

Then came the political humiliation.

Nigeria was redesignated by the United States as a Country of Particular Concern in late October 2025 over religious-freedom abuses, a major diplomatic blow to any government that wants to be seen as credible, stable, and in control. By January 22, 2026, Abuja and Washington had to set up a special joint working group just to address the damage from that designation. That is not the posture of a respected partner. That is the posture of a government under pressure. 

Then came the desperate public-relations scramble.

Nigeria hired U.S. lobbyists in a $9 million effort to “communicate its position” to Washington as criticism mounted over insecurity and the treatment of Christians. At the same time, First Lady Remi Tinubu went to Washington for the National Prayer Breakfast, appeared on conservative U.S. media, and met lawmakers as part of the same broader influence campaign. Nine million dollars spent, the First Lady dispatched, the full charm offensive activated, and yet the core problem remains. Tinubu still looks like a leader trying to repair trust he does not have. 

And now the security optics are even more damaging.

Reuters reported on March 21, 2026 that the United States has multiple MQ-9 drones operating in Nigeria alongside about 200 U.S. troops providing intelligence and training support. Whether Abuja likes it or not, that is the image of a country viewed in Washington not as a normal democratic success story, but as a worsening security problem. 

Put all of this together and the picture is ugly.

A president with unresolved U.S. records hanging over him.
A country branded by Washington as a Country of Particular Concern.
A $9 million lobbying campaign that reeks of desperation.
A First Lady sent to plead Nigeria’s case in America.
U.S. troops and drones on Nigerian soil because insecurity is spiraling.

This is not strength. This is weakness dressed up as diplomacy.

Tinubu’s supporters may still choose fantasy over facts. They may tell themselves that a state visit to Britain, a few smiling photographs, and establishment handshakes in Europe will solve the problem. They will not. London cannot erase a U.S. federal court order. Paris cannot bury FBI and DEA files. No friendly foreign capital can wash away the stain of a government that has had to spend millions begging Washington to change its mind while America simultaneously brands Nigeria a serious violator and deepens its own military footprint inside the country. 

This is why I believe Tinubu’s political danger is not coming from the usual noise in Abuja. It is coming from the collision between old records, present insecurity, and foreign distrust.

Once the remaining documents come out, Nigerians may discover that the problem was never just bad governance.

It was that the man at the top had become a liability to the very foreign powers whose approval he desperately needed.

And when that truth lands fully, many of his supporters will be shattered.

Because the real story may turn out not to be that Tinubu was protected.

It may be that he was useful, until he became too expensive to protect.

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A4alpha:
Op you are deep and very strategical with your presentation, I feel you

RealityKings1:
Absolute waste of time

enemyofprogress:
Tinubu’s Washington Problem Is Real, and No London Photo-Op Can Save Him

By Kio Amachree

Let us stop pretending that all is well.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a serious problem in Washington, and it is getting worse.

First came the U.S. court orders. In April 2025, a federal judge ordered the FBI and DEA to release records tied to Tinubu. Then in February 2026, Judge Beryl Howell lost patience with the delays, rebuked the agencies, demanded sworn explanations, imposed a release timetable, and ordered continuing status reports. That is not a trivial development. That is a sign that this matter is alive, active, and serious. 

Then came the political humiliation.

Nigeria was redesignated by the United States as a Country of Particular Concern in late October 2025 over religious-freedom abuses, a major diplomatic blow to any government that wants to be seen as credible, stable, and in control. By January 22, 2026, Abuja and Washington had to set up a special joint working group just to address the damage from that designation. That is not the posture of a respected partner. That is the posture of a government under pressure. 

Then came the desperate public-relations scramble.

Nigeria hired U.S. lobbyists in a $9 million effort to “communicate its position” to Washington as criticism mounted over insecurity and the treatment of Christians. At the same time, First Lady Remi Tinubu went to Washington for the National Prayer Breakfast, appeared on conservative U.S. media, and met lawmakers as part of the same broader influence campaign. Nine million dollars spent, the First Lady dispatched, the full charm offensive activated, and yet the core problem remains. Tinubu still looks like a leader trying to repair trust he does not have. 

And now the security optics are even more damaging.

Reuters reported on March 21, 2026 that the United States has multiple MQ-9 drones operating in Nigeria alongside about 200 U.S. troops providing intelligence and training support. Whether Abuja likes it or not, that is the image of a country viewed in Washington not as a normal democratic success story, but as a worsening security problem. 

Put all of this together and the picture is ugly.

A president with unresolved U.S. records hanging over him.
A country branded by Washington as a Country of Particular Concern.
A $9 million lobbying campaign that reeks of desperation.
A First Lady sent to plead Nigeria’s case in America.
U.S. troops and drones on Nigerian soil because insecurity is spiraling.

This is not strength. This is weakness dressed up as diplomacy.

Tinubu’s supporters may still choose fantasy over facts. They may tell themselves that a state visit to Britain, a few smiling photographs, and establishment handshakes in Europe will solve the problem. They will not. London cannot erase a U.S. federal court order. Paris cannot bury FBI and DEA files. No friendly foreign capital can wash away the stain of a government that has had to spend millions begging Washington to change its mind while America simultaneously brands Nigeria a serious violator and deepens its own military footprint inside the country. 

This is why I believe Tinubu’s political danger is not coming from the usual noise in Abuja. It is coming from the collision between old records, present insecurity, and foreign distrust.

Once the remaining documents come out, Nigerians may discover that the problem was never just bad governance.

It was that the man at the top had become a liability to the very foreign powers whose approval he desperately needed.

And when that truth lands fully, many of his supporters will be shattered.

Because the real story may turn out not to be that Tinubu was protected.

It may be that he was useful, until he became too expensive to protect.

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Kushites:
WHAT AUDACITY DO YOU HAVE TO CALL ''TINUBU'' WHEN AMERICA ITSELF IS RULED BY A 34 FELONY CRIMINAL CONVICT DICTATOR AND WAR CRIMINAL WHO HAS SLAUGHTERED 4,000 INNOCENT IRANIAN CIVILIANS SO FAR, INCLUDING 175 SCHOOLGIRLS AGED 7 YRS?

BOMBED TO SMITHEREENS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS?

JUST EXPLAIN YOUR AUDACITY.

MichaelSokoto:
u are wasting ur noise!

just tell ur Chicago oga to visit USA, shikena!

Tochitee:
Na like this Una wan give Pandora pleisdnecy? Continue deceiving yourselves

enemyofprogress:
Tinubu’s Washington Problem Is Real, and No London Photo-Op Can Save Him

By Kio Amachree

Let us stop pretending that all is well.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a serious problem in Washington, and it is getting worse.

First came the U.S. court orders. In April 2025, a federal judge ordered the FBI and DEA to release records tied to Tinubu. Then in February 2026, Judge Beryl Howell lost patience with the delays, rebuked the agencies, demanded sworn explanations, imposed a release timetable, and ordered continuing status reports. That is not a trivial development. That is a sign that this matter is alive, active, and serious. 

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Kushites:
WHAT AUDACITY DO YOU HAVE TO CALL ''TINUBU'' WHEN AMERICA ITSELF IS RULED BY A 34 FELONY CRIMINAL CONVICT DICTATOR AND WAR CRIMINAL WHO HAS SLAUGHTERED 4,000 INNOCENT IRANIAN CIVILIANS SO FAR, INCLUDING 175 SCHOOLGIRLS AGED 7 YRS?

BOMBED TO SMITHEREENS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS?

JUST EXPLAIN YOUR AUDACITY.

aswani:
See this part of your post, or whatever it was copied from, very fake. There were no court cases, no judgements by anybody.

It was all a money making scheme by David Hundeyin that failed totally eventually as Obidients stop giving him money to help fight his fake case.

He still raises the matter every so often, adds a link from his one man websites, that he has set up, as some kind of proof but it has all been debunked as false.

The matter is not alive, active or serious. There, simply is no matter at all.

aswani:
See this part of your post, or whatever it was copied from, very fake. There were no court cases, no judgements by anybody.

It was all a money making scheme by David Hundeyin that failed totally eventually as Obidients stop giving him money to help fight his fake case.

He still raises the matter every so often, adds a link from his one man websites, that he has set up, as some kind of proof but it has all been debunked as false.

The matter is not alive, active or serious. There, simply is no matter at all.

Kukutente23:
You mean there's no case in the US court for release of FBI files on Tinubu

Dalohad:
Anytime you write, you must mention Obidients.

Are they your nightmare?

aswani:
Absolutely nothing, from the first time the Hundeyin guy claimed it, there was nothing.

He just made nonsense up knowing Obidients hatred for President Tinubu would help him collect money from them without giving the what he promised.

The Judge didn't sit on the days he mentioned, the news only comes from websites that he Hundeyin owns. Nothing from the FBI website to suggest anything is in play.

How he has carried on the charade for so long shows that yahooism is strong and alive in Nigeria.

Kukutente23:
You mean BBC and Punch newspapers are lying here?

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cvgn4djz2xdo

https://punchng.com/fbi-dea-seek-90-day-extension-to-release-tinubus-records/

aswani:
Yes an absolutely falsehood by Punch who have thankfully stopped carrying the news, Hundeyin has raised in again at least 3 times since then, in order to salvage their reputation.

BBC pidgin, as does Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo, doesn't have the high editorial standards of BBC seeing as they are run from Nigeria.

It is a falsehood to pretend they are an actual BBC website, they are no more than a affiliate.

enemyofprogress:
Tinubu’s Washington Problem Is Real, and No London Photo-Op Can Save Him

By Kio Amachree

Let us stop pretending that all is well.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a serious problem in Washington, and it is getting worse.

First came the U.S. court orders. In April 2025, a federal judge ordered the FBI and DEA to release records tied to Tinubu. Then in February 2026, Judge Beryl Howell lost patience with the delays, rebuked the agencies, demanded sworn explanations, imposed a release timetable, and ordered continuing status reports. That is not a trivial development. That is a sign that this matter is alive, active, and serious. 

Then came the political humiliation.

Nigeria was redesignated by the United States as a Country of Particular Concern in late October 2025 over religious-freedom abuses, a major diplomatic blow to any government that wants to be seen as credible, stable, and in control. By January 22, 2026, Abuja and Washington had to set up a special joint working group just to address the damage from that designation. That is not the posture of a respected partner. That is the posture of a government under pressure. 

Then came the desperate public-relations scramble.

Nigeria hired U.S. lobbyists in a $9 million effort to “communicate its position” to Washington as criticism mounted over insecurity and the treatment of Christians. At the same time, First Lady Remi Tinubu went to Washington for the National Prayer Breakfast, appeared on conservative U.S. media, and met lawmakers as part of the same broader influence campaign. Nine million dollars spent, the First Lady dispatched, the full charm offensive activated, and yet the core problem remains. Tinubu still looks like a leader trying to repair trust he does not have. 

And now the security optics are even more damaging.

Reuters reported on March 21, 2026 that the United States has multiple MQ-9 drones operating in Nigeria alongside about 200 U.S. troops providing intelligence and training support. Whether Abuja likes it or not, that is the image of a country viewed in Washington not as a normal democratic success story, but as a worsening security problem. 

Put all of this together and the picture is ugly.

A president with unresolved U.S. records hanging over him.
A country branded by Washington as a Country of Particular Concern.
A $9 million lobbying campaign that reeks of desperation.
A First Lady sent to plead Nigeria’s case in America.
U.S. troops and drones on Nigerian soil because insecurity is spiraling.

This is not strength. This is weakness dressed up as diplomacy.

Tinubu’s supporters may still choose fantasy over facts. They may tell themselves that a state visit to Britain, a few smiling photographs, and establishment handshakes in Europe will solve the problem. They will not. London cannot erase a U.S. federal court order. Paris cannot bury FBI and DEA files. No friendly foreign capital can wash away the stain of a government that has had to spend millions begging Washington to change its mind while America simultaneously brands Nigeria a serious violator and deepens its own military footprint inside the country. 

This is why I believe Tinubu’s political danger is not coming from the usual noise in Abuja. It is coming from the collision between old records, present insecurity, and foreign distrust.

Once the remaining documents come out, Nigerians may discover that the problem was never just bad governance.

It was that the man at the top had become a liability to the very foreign powers whose approval he desperately needed.

And when that truth lands fully, many of his supporters will be shattered.

Because the real story may turn out not to be that Tinubu was protected.

It may be that he was useful, until he became too expensive to protect.

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Kukutente23:
You mean channels TV was also being Obidient here

[url]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DQyvCesEi9Iw&ved=2ahUKEwiQmsjug7aTAxVTRkEAHXRRNZgQwqsBegQIfRAB&usg=AOvVaw2Kg9sgDYMVVmsvEvJFh_zM[/url]

You're the first individual I'm hearing from that BBC Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are not actually BBC and Punch is an Obidient news outlet run by Hundeyin
Is this a case of corn infested delusion or excessive brainwashing from the BAT camp?
Because I struggle to believe a sane and educated person can say all these with full confidence

aswani:
Where's did I say Punch was an Obidient whatever, are you OK at all to misquote me so blatantly?

Plus the BBC websites I mentioned have less rigorous standards of editing regarding reporting facts like the actual BBC website does. Again read what I wrote about what they actually are.

Channels also bought into the nonsense initially and it is to their eternal shame. Feel free to show me where they continually report on it everytime Hundeyin brings it up.

In the video you sent, which I can't access as you that are Mr Sane and educated can't correctly copy a URL, how many people directly related to the case did they interview? Did they show a video of counsel going in and out of the court premises?

You dey fall my hand, unless you are Hundeyin himself, in that case, continue you hear, hand go soon touch you.

Kukutente23:
This is really good comedy though pitiful as it's a case of a full blooded homo sapiens making a mùmu of himself in order to defend a politician

Is it that you're not reading what you're writing? You said only Hundeyin websites carried the news and only Obidients believed him. Except you mean Punch is owned by Hundeyin which even a baby goat knows he doesn't, you're summarily saying Punch sourced the news from Hundeyin websites and ran it on their platforms because they believed him which makes them Obidient in accordance with your earlier claim

It's also very sad someone will claim the BBC in Nigeria languages are simply affiliates when even their websites are hosted on the same BBC domain. Why will a human being choose to so ridicule himself like this?

https://www.bbc.com/hausa

Now channels is also Obidient which is why they source the news from Hundeyin and the fact they didn't show a video of lawyers coming and going from the courthouse proves you right
Oh God of mercy!! And you expect to be counted among sane folks?

If you can't access the URL, it's not my fault. It just shows you're doing badly at copy and paste and it won't be a surprise given the yeye iq you've exhibited

Funny enough your claims are so easily verified or debunked with a simply click so one wonders why you chose to go this derisive lane when you could have simply done yourself a favour and use your data appropriately

SeeWahala come and see wahala o

aswani:
Ọ ma

Kukutente23:
Too late
You should have just "Ọ ma" before you started this journey down the road of infamy

See how you made a mess of yourself

You called Punch, Channels and BBC Obidients just because you wanted to prove that the Tinubu drug case in the US does not exist

You claimed only Hundeyin was running the news

All these from your face-me-I-slap you room? Haba!! Supporting a politician shouldn't make one lose his common sense of reasoning and bring himself so low into disrepute like this na!! How much are you being paid that makes it worth it to make a caricature of yourself online?

Ọ ma o

aswani:
Sir, you clearly are good at adding 2 + 2 and getting 22, clap for yourself.

If the stuff you are typing makes sense to you, hooray. I noticed your jumbled up thinking on the other thread that you complained about being blocked and history has repeated itself.

You win oga, na you bíko. Now where is that block button. Bikonu oga Seun, do kwik give us lifetime block button abeg.