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The Presidential Campaign Council of the African Democratic (ADC) has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to produce any judgment convicting its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of corruption.

The Council said this while responding to an earlier statement by APC spokesman, Felix Morka, who alleged that Atiku was unfit for Presidency over his past record.

But in a counter statement, Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of ADC Campaign Council, described Morka’s comment as a “grubby attempt to conduct a trial by insult”.

He said Morka’s insults could not answer Nigerians asking why food, fuel, transport and electricity have become so difficult to afford.

“Morka piles rumour upon insinuation, pronounces sentence in an APC press release and expects Nigerians to mistake his fury for evidence. He may shout like a prosecutor and posture like a judge, but he cannot manufacture a conviction. If he has a judgment against Atiku, let him produce it. If he does not, he should stop parading his allegations as the verdict of a court.”

“Morka has become an untutored spin doctor for a party caught in the conundrum of a sinking regime. Strip away the gutter language and his argument is simple: an allegation against Atiku must be treated as a conviction.”

The Council said Morka’s warning that Atiku must be kept away from the national treasury was a remarkable sermon from the party of a president whose accounts were the subject of a United States forfeiture case arising from narcotics trafficking allegations.

“Tinubu court record reads at times like the script of a 1970s gangster film: an alleged heroin network, aliases, wire transfers, accounts spread across banks and relatives whose names recur in the financial trail. Yet this is no work of fiction. It is a sworn affidavit filed in a United States federal court,” Shaibu said.

“The connections described by the investigator were specific. Adegboyega Mueez Akande introduced Tinubu to First Heritage Bank. Shortly after Tinubu opened an account there, $80,000 arrived through a transfer linked to Akande. Tinubu subsequently purchased a $5,000 cashier’s cheque payable to Akande’s wife, Audrey; the cheque was deposited into Akande’s account. Corporate documents supplied for Compass Finance, whose accounts Tinubu controlled, listed Akande and Abiodun Agbele as directors.

“A bank introduction. A transfer. A cheque. A company. Tinubu should explain those transactions and why the same names kept appearing around his finances.”

Shaibu said the affidavit also placed Oluremi Tinubu in the banking records.

It stated that she held a joint checking account with her husband and had previously held another joint account at the same bank with Audrey Akande, the wife of the major narcotics suspect, Adegboyega Mueez Akande.

“The affidavit documents Oluremi Tinubu and her husband Bola as associates of the narcotics gang,” Shaibu said. “So, the President cannot dismiss a documented financial trail by pretending Nigerians have no right to ask where it led.”

The Council said a US federal court ruled in 2025 that the Department of Justice had officially acknowledged Tinubu as a subject of a criminal investigation involving the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Now, another report says an FBI search for “Bola” and “Tinubu” appears in a file involving multiple subjects.

The Council said the President should support the fullest lawful disclosure of the relevant records and explain what they contain.

“Morka’s colleagues will rush to tell Nigerians that a search result is not a conviction. Nobody has said it is,” Shaibu said. “But that observation does not erase the court’s finding that Tinubu was a subject of an investigation. Nigerians deserve to know what the records say, what role he played in the events they describe, and why disclosure has been resisted.”

Shaibu said the Presidency’s description of the current US litigation as a civil dispute over access to records did not answer the historical question.

“Yes, the case before the court concerns access to records. The records concern an investigation. Both facts can be true at once. A press statement from Abuja cannot erase a finding in a Washington courtroom,” he said.

The Council recalled that Tinubu also appeared before Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Tribunal in 2011 over allegations that he operated foreign bank accounts while serving as Lagos State governor.

The charges were struck out after the tribunal found that the Code of Conduct Bureau had not followed the required procedure.

“It must show the same respect for the record when Atiku’s name is involved,” Shaibu said.

Turning to the Mambilla arbitration, the Council said Morka had again confused a question raised by a tribunal with a finding it never made. The tribunal questioned Leno Adesanya’s explanation for a $500,000 payment to Jennifer Douglas.

“It did not find that Atiku received a bribe or used his office to secure the disputed Mambilla contract for Sunrise. Besides, the tribunal held that there was actually no contract. So, the purported bribe was to what end?

“Adesanya’s explanation about the said payment may have called for further probe by the tribunal, but it does not give Morka permission to write a corruption verdict the tribunal never delivered,” Shaibu said.

The Council said the same distinction applied to the 2010 United States Senate report.

“The report examined transfers involving Atiku and Douglas, but did not adjudicate Atiku’s criminal guilt. It discussed Siemens payments to an account held by Douglas without establishing that Atiku received them. It stated that no evidence was introduced at William Jefferson’s trial showing Atiku sought or accepted a bribe from him. It recorded a Nigerian Senate committee’s recommendation for sanctions over PTDF, but found no evidence that the Senate imposed them.”

ogododo:
The Presidential Campaign Council of the African Democratic (ADC) has challenged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to produce any judgment convicting its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of corruption.

The Council said this while responding to an earlier statement by APC spokesman, Felix Morka, who alleged that Atiku was unfit for Presidency over his past record.


But in a counter statement, Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of ADC Campaign Council, described Morka’s comment as a “grubby attempt to conduct a trial by insult”.

He said Morka’s insults could not answer Nigerians asking why food, fuel, transport and electricity have become so difficult to afford.


“Morka piles rumour upon insinuation, pronounces sentence in an APC press release and expects Nigerians to mistake his fury for evidence. He may shout like a prosecutor and posture like a judge, but he cannot manufacture a conviction. If he has a judgment against Atiku, let him produce it. If he does not, he should stop parading his allegations as the verdict of a court.”

“Morka has become an untutored spin doctor for a party caught in the conundrum of a sinking regime. Strip away the gutter language and his argument is simple: an allegation against Atiku must be treated as a conviction.”

The Council said Morka’s warning that Atiku must be kept away from the national treasury was a remarkable sermon from the party of a president whose accounts were the subject of a United States forfeiture case arising from narcotics trafficking allegations.

“Tinubu court record reads at times like the script of a 1970s gangster film: an alleged heroin network, aliases, wire transfers, accounts spread across banks and relatives whose names recur in the financial trail. Yet this is no work of fiction. It is a sworn affidavit filed in a United States federal court,” Shaibu said.

“The connections described by the investigator were specific. Adegboyega Mueez Akande introduced Tinubu to First Heritage Bank. Shortly after Tinubu opened an account there, $80,000 arrived through a transfer linked to Akande. Tinubu subsequently purchased a $5,000 cashier’s cheque payable to Akande’s wife, Audrey; the cheque was deposited into Akande’s account. Corporate documents supplied for Compass Finance, whose accounts Tinubu controlled, listed Akande and Abiodun Agbele as directors.

“A bank introduction. A transfer. A cheque. A company. Tinubu should explain those transactions and why the same names kept appearing around his finances.”

Shaibu said the affidavit also placed Oluremi Tinubu in the banking records.

It stated that she held a joint checking account with her husband and had previously held another joint account at the same bank with Audrey Akande, the wife of the major narcotics suspect, Adegboyega Mueez Akande.

“The affidavit documents Oluremi Tinubu and her husband Bola as associates of the narcotics gang,” Shaibu said. “So, the President cannot dismiss a documented financial trail by pretending Nigerians have no right to ask where it led.”

The Council said a US federal court ruled in 2025 that the Department of Justice had officially acknowledged Tinubu as a subject of a criminal investigation involving the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Now, another report says an FBI search for “Bola” and “Tinubu” appears in a file involving multiple subjects.

The Council said the President should support the fullest lawful disclosure of the relevant records and explain what they contain.

“Morka’s colleagues will rush to tell Nigerians that a search result is not a conviction. Nobody has said it is,” Shaibu said. “But that observation does not erase the court’s finding that Tinubu was a subject of an investigation. Nigerians deserve to know what the records say, what role he played in the events they describe, and why disclosure has been resisted.”

Shaibu said the Presidency’s description of the current US litigation as a civil dispute over access to records did not answer the historical question.

“Yes, the case before the court concerns access to records. The records concern an investigation. Both facts can be true at once. A press statement from Abuja cannot erase a finding in a Washington courtroom,” he said.

The Council recalled that Tinubu also appeared before Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Tribunal in 2011 over allegations that he operated foreign bank accounts while serving as Lagos State governor.

The charges were struck out after the tribunal found that the Code of Conduct Bureau had not followed the required procedure.

“It must show the same respect for the record when Atiku’s name is involved,” Shaibu said.

Turning to the Mambilla arbitration, the Council said Morka had again confused a question raised by a tribunal with a finding it never made. The tribunal questioned Leno Adesanya’s explanation for a $500,000 payment to Jennifer Douglas.

“It did not find that Atiku received a bribe or used his office to secure the disputed Mambilla contract for Sunrise. Besides, the tribunal held that there was actually no contract. So, the purported bribe was to what end?

“Adesanya’s explanation about the said payment may have called for further probe by the tribunal, but it does not give Morka permission to write a corruption verdict the tribunal never delivered,” Shaibu said.

The Council said the same distinction applied to the 2010 United States Senate report.

“The report examined transfers involving Atiku and Douglas, but did not adjudicate Atiku’s criminal guilt. It discussed Siemens payments to an account held by Douglas without establishing that Atiku received them. It stated that no evidence was introduced at William Jefferson’s trial showing Atiku sought or accepted a bribe from him. It recorded a Nigerian Senate committee’s recommendation for sanctions over PTDF, but found no evidence that the Senate imposed them.”

https://dailytrust.com/produce-judgment-convicting-atiku-adc-campaign-council-dares-apc/

ogododo:
https://dailytrust.com/produce-judgment-convicting-atiku-adc-campaign-council-dares-apc/

PigTormentor:
Clowns...Where is any evidence of Tinunub getting arrested or even charged with any crime in the US? Yet you went ahead and paid one Ikemefuna masquerading as Van Batten

ogododo:
https://dailytrust.com/produce-judgment-convicting-atiku-adc-campaign-council-dares-apc/

slivertongue:
AA didn't forfeit money in any criminal or civil case

zoedew:
Well, Well, Well! What do you call this? - https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/911791-special-report-inside-five-international-corruption-cases-involving-atiku-ex-wife.html

The definition of delusion is denial of realty. Abubakar Atiku is who the special report says he is and it is gross delusion to deny it! The deluded and shameless fellows are asking for a Judgment convicting a thief caught in broad daylight and in the open with the stolen item in his hands!

Racoon:
Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.

Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.

His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993

It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.

Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.

He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/313805/festus-keyamo-defends-tinubu-from-drug-trafficking-says-tin.html

 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

Bluntemperor:
Look at the Association Of Deficient Comrades - ADC !
It is not good for a blind to lead other blind people o!
-So,the OBJ Book 📚 titled ' My Watch' is not indictment of Corruption of Atiku ?
So, Atiku's Statements few Weeks ago ' that 'if we had handled the $16-BILLIONS - DOLLAR 💰 -NEPA/ DISCOS Loan Money'
-That Disappeared through his PRIVATISATION Exercises and has left Nigeria homes and Offices- in the Darkness 🌑 till today-is Not Enough Indictments ?
See Jokers everywhere in Nigeria 🥳.

5 mind-boggling revelations from Obasanjo’s ‘My Watch’

5. Tinubu was one of the most corrupt, of the 36 governors

Obasanjo never got along too well with former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, and unsurprisingly, Tinubu got a mention in the former’s book.

Obasanjo revealed that then EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu tried to investigate almost all the state governors during his tenure but that of the 28 confirmed to be manifestly corrupt or tainted one way or the other, Tinubu’s case was one of the worst.

https://encomium.ng/5-mind-boggling-revelations-from-obasanjos-my-watch/

Chucks13:
ADC rest abeg make we hear word, North will only return to power in 2031. Full stop.

PigTormentor:
Clowns...Where is any evidence of Tinunub getting arrested or even charged with any crime in the US? Yet you went ahead and paid one Ikemefuna masquerading as Van Batten

PigTormentor:
Clowns...Where is any evidence of Tinunub getting arrested or even charged with any crime in the US? Yet you went ahead and paid one Ikemefuna masquerading as Van Batten

anonimi:
The evidence full ground but those who have selective vision impairment won’t see it.

Life is truly difficult for the blind.

PigTormentor:
Clowns...Where is any evidence of Tinunub getting arrested or even charged with any crime in the US? Yet you went ahead and paid one Ikemefuna masquerading as Van Batten

anonimi:
The jokers are the ones who fabricate stories in their balablu bulaba mind.

Where is this statement of few weeks ago?

If Obasanjo is not a wicked loser, why did he fail to prosecute Atiku, or any of his associates (if he has immunity) during his second term? What made Obasanjo endorse his multiple benefactor Atiku in 2019? Do you know?

Atiku is a saint compared to Tinubu who is the worst rogue politician.


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Nigeria: Corruption - Kalu, Tinubu Can't Escape -Ribadu

19 FEBRUARY 2007

Daily Champion (Lagos)

Lagos — ABIA State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and his Lagos State counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not escape justice but would be made to face the full wrath of the law following their recent indictment for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Chairman of the commission Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who made the vow yesterday said the duo must account for their stewardship and may be thrown out of office.

https://allafrica.com/stories/200702190245.html

Bluntemperor:
You did not disappoint anyone here as a Trident Obedient on Social media and like a rolling stone can't gather any sand ⌛!
Obasanjo Could not Prosecute Atiku because Northerners would have turned it Into Political Persecution and heat the Polity of the land and the Best Approach is to put Atiku Sin in Black and White Book 📚 Called 'My Watch' and this has paid Off 📴.
You and Atiku can go to Court to -Challenge the truthfulness of the Book,
Afterall,
•Baba OBJ is still Around and Alive and don't be a Coward Not to defend this in Court!

anonimi:
The jokers are the ones who fabricate stories in their balablu bulaba mind.

Where is this statement of few weeks ago?

If Obasanjo is not a wicked loser, why did he fail to prosecute Atiku, or any of his associates (if he has immunity) during his second term? What made Obasanjo endorse his multiple benefactor Atiku in 2019? Do you know?

Atiku is a saint compared to Tinubu who is the worst rogue politician.


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Nigeria: Corruption - Kalu, Tinubu Can't Escape -Ribadu

19 FEBRUARY 2007

Daily Champion (Lagos)

Lagos — ABIA State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and his Lagos State counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not escape justice but would be made to face the full wrath of the law following their recent indictment for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Chairman of the commission Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who made the vow yesterday said the duo must account for their stewardship and may be thrown out of office.

https://allafrica.com/stories/200702190245.html

PigTormentor:
Clowns...Where is any evidence of Tinunub getting arrested or even charged with any crime in the US? Yet you went ahead and paid asoneIkemefuna masquerading Van Batten