Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, should be arrested and charged by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is what the Directorate of Strategic Communications for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council said.
A statement detailing the accusations against Tinubu was signed by Dele Momodu, director of strategic communication; Paul Ibe, media adviser to Atiku Abubakar; Daniel Bwala, spokeswoman for the presidential campaign council; Phrank Shaibu, special assistant to Atiku Abubakar for public communication; and Charles Aniagwu, spokeswoman for the presidential campaign council.
According to a statement provided to The Guardian on Sunday, Tinubu needs to be detained by the aforementioned organizations and charged with violating the Code of Conduct for Public Officers and committing financial offenses.
Here is the complete declaration.
ATIKU ABUBAKAR PCC’s Directorate of Strategic Communications held a global press conference.
Dear Nigerians, we are at a turning point, and the wrong choice could mean the end of this beautiful country for all time. Nigeria is now dealing with a number of issues. Banditry and terrorism are wreaking havoc on numerous northern cities, while militants in the Niger Delta are assaulting oil infrastructure and crippling the nation’s economy while secessionists are holding the southeast hostage. The addition of state-sponsored drug trafficking will be a major catastrophe.
It comes as no surprise that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, has close ties to drug traffickers and has been used as a conduit to launder their money.
According to court records, the Nigerian drug lord Adegboyega Muiz Akande ran a complex network of heroin dealers in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1980s.
“This inquiry has identified more people, including family members, who have performed a variety of tasks for Akande in the distribution organization. Bola Tinubu has been identified as one of them by the investigation, according to Kevin Moss, a special agent with the Inland Revenue Service.
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According to court documents, Akande accompanied Tinubu to First Heritage Bank in 1989 to open an account for himself and Senator Oluremi Tinubu. In documents, Tinubu stated that he was employed by Mobil Nigeria Limited, made $2,400 per year, and had no other sources of income.
However, documents from his First Heritage Bank account revealed that Tinubu had made deposits into his personal money market account in 1990 totaling $661,000 and in 1991 totaling $1,216,500. Despite serving as the company’s treasurer, Tinubu did not have access to the organization’s cash, according to Mobil executives, who said that this prevented him from making deposits on the company’s behalf.
The political Maradona Tinubu immediately reached a deal with US law enforcement and surrendered $460,000 in order to avoid going to jail before fleeing to Nigeria. However, this does not negate the fact that he worked as a bagman for drug dealers and was in collusion with them.
Nigerian law is unambiguous. Criminal cases can be reopened at any moment, especially for reasons of national interest, and they have no statute of limitations. We demand that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrest Bola Ahmed Tinubu right away and charge him with drug trafficking.
There is a national security component to this call in addition to the criminal one. The world will remember what transpired in Panama after infamous drug lord Manuel Noriega was elected president in 1983. As a result of Noriega’s alliance with the legendary Medellin cartel led by Pablo Escobar during his six-year tenure, Panama developed into a narco-state.
In the terrible event that Bola Tinubu were to win the presidency, Nigerians would be confronted with a drug issue that would be trivial in comparison to the situation in Colombia. Violence will rise as drug use becomes more accessible. Nigerians can’t take this chance.
In fact, on March 20, 2021, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (ret. ), Chairman of the NDLEA, stated that the South-West had the highest rate of drug misuse cases in the nation at 22.4%. At a drug-free symposium for secondary school students in Ibadan on October 28, 2021, Titilope Asiru, the principal staff officer in charge of treatment and rehabilitation at NDLEA’s Oyo State Command, stated that Lagos State had the highest drug use prevalence in the southwest and consequently, Nigeria, at 33%. It’s odd that since 1999, this state has been run by a man with apparent ties to the drug trade. Nigerians are allowed to form their own opinions.
Alpha Beta Tinubu has also persisted in boasting about how he improved Lagos State’s financial situation; however, this claim is not entirely true. The former managing director of Alpha Beta Consulting, Dapo Apara, has testified in court documents that Tinubu has continued to control the state’s money through this business.
Apara described how Alpha Beta was established in violation of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers in 2002, when Tinubu was still the governor, in the writ of summons with the reference number LD/7330GCMW/2020. Apara claimed that it was his idea for a consulting firm to assist the state government in tax collection.
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According to him, Tinubu approved the idea subject to a number of requirements, one of which was that his own people must hold 70% of the business. Apara says that Tinubu named Adegboyega Oyetola, who later became governor of Osun State, and Olumide Ogunmola, who would own 70% of Alpha Beta’s shares.
Apara claimed that Tinubu owned Alpha Beta, which received 10% of the taxes gathered on the state’s behalf while he was still serving as governor in 2002.
According to the claimant, Tinubu ordered in 2010 or thereabouts that Alpha-Beta Consulting Ltd.’s formation structure be converted from a limited liability company to a limited liability partnership in accordance with a recently passed statute in Lagos State. He said that the action was done to keep Tinubu’s involvement from being seen by the public.
Apara claimed that as the company’s leader, he started investigating its finances and discovered a number of shocking things, including enigmatic transfers of billions of naira, including a payment of N1 billion to Vintage Press, publishers of The Nation newspaper.
According to the former leader of Alpha Beta, he found out that all of the payments had been approved by Tinubu’s partners and that they had been made without his knowledge, which was against the terms of their partnership agreement.
He said, “The claimant avers that among many others, unbeknownst to the claimant, some of the suspicious transfers to third parties include as follows: A payment of N500,000,000 will be made to SW8 Investment Ltd via payment instruction dated December 30, 2013, and a payment of $2,989,063.33 will be made to Summit Integrated Services Ltd via payment instruction dated March 18, 2015.
(c) $1,407,000 USD payment to Summit Integrated Services Ltd per payment instruction dated March 18, 2015; (d) N25,000,000 payment to Halizview International Ltd per payment instruction dated March 18, 2015; (e) N39,000,000 payment to Halizview International Ltd per payment instruction dated March 3, 2015; and (i) N38,000,000 payment to Halizview International Ltd per payment instruction dated March 6, 2015
In October 2017, I invested N1 billion in Afkar printing press, Vintage Press Limited, and Lagoon Press Limited; J N1 billion in Ocean and Oil Investment Limited (OANDO) at various times; k N3.5 billion in Oceanic Bank (avow ECOBANK) at various times; I N100 million in Ibile Holdings Land Plot 16/17 BLO; and N1 billion in Afkar printing press, Vintage Press Limited, and Lagoon Press Limited.
Following an investigation by The Punch, it was discovered that some of the aforementioned businesses, including Ocean Trust Limited, which got N850 million from Alpha Beta on a single day, were nothing more than special-purpose vehicles or shell firms. Actually no longer in existence, Ocean Trust is situated at 684 Idowu Taylor Street, the same address as Tinubu’s organization, Freedom House.
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Tinubu asked Alpha Beta to give $2,988,063.33 and $1,407,000 to Summit Integrated Services Limited, a UK-registered “engineering services” company whose directors all live in Colombia. These payments were made on March 18 and March 18.
The Quality Company Formations company formation service (QCF Secretaries Limited) was used to make “Summit Integrated Services,” which is a briefcase company.
Its owners are a man named Eparquio Jose Gonzalez Oliveros and his offspring, who are all based in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. The international drug trade is centered in Barranquilla, which is in northwest Colombia. Its port is a significant hub for the export of cocaine as a result of the growth of drug cartels in the 1980s and 1990s and its naval closeness to the US and Central America.
Additionally, why did Alpha Beta Consultants, a business run by convicted drug dealer Bola Ahmed Tinubu, wire $4,396,063.33 to this enigmatic briefcase corporation based in Barranquilla, Colombia, on March 18th, 2015?
These are the inquiries that must be made.
In a move that is strikingly similar to his drug deal with US authorities, Tinubu hastily arranged a cash settlement with Dapo Apara before the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere before the presidential election that involves Apara dismissing the case. Drug trafficking is a crime against the state; hence, the NDLEA and the EFCC must continue their investigations and prosecutions notwithstanding this.
Unfathomable wealth
The mysterious wealth of Tinubu is nothing new. He claimed to have returned to Nigeria empty-handed from the June 12 struggle in an interview with The News Magazine some ten years ago.
“They evicted me from the residence and my Saka Tinubu Street workplace.” Everything I owned, including my vehicles, They took it away from me after saying they found bombs inside. I had been thoroughly cleansed. “I just had five shirts, $2,000, and jackets,” he reflected.
Tinubu asserts that he is currently wealthier than Osun State. In a popular video that is still accessible online, Tinubu boasted that he was wealthier than the state of Osun during a visit to the ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun.
Before the rigged 2018 election in Osun State, he declared to a crowd that “Osun does not have my sort of money.” His staff promptly released a statement claiming that he was misquoted.
But on February 14, 2019, Tinubu once more stated it in front of party members, boasting about being wealthier than Osun State: “How much is your money that I’ll embezzle?” My pocket is too big for you. After I informed them, their traditional leaders took their seats.
The day before the presidential elections in Lagos, two cash-filled bullion trucks were seen on his property at 26 Bourdillon Street, Ikoyi. It was thought that they were there to buy votes.
When journalists questioned Tinubu about the bullion vans, he once again retorted that it was his money and he could spend it however he pleased. “What is your headache, even if I have money to spend on my property?” he asked.
On October 25, 2019, a group of outspoken activists, including Ariyo Dare-Atoye and Deji Adeyanju, petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to look into and prosecute Tinubu for violating the Money Laundering Act after he publicly admitted to sharing millions of naira on the eve of elections.
To be fair to the EFCC, its current chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, issued a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau while he was the head of the organization’s Lagos office (CCB). Bawa requested Tinubu’s asset declaration documents in a letter dated November 6, 2020, and bearing the marking CR/3000/EFCC/LS/Vol4/322.
The CCB claimed, however, that it had misplaced the forms, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. The EFCC has remained silent on the matter since Tinubu was announced as the APC’s presidential candidate and Ariyo, the petition’s author, sadly passed away. We hereby need an update on this situation from the EFCC.
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Additionally, Tinubu was exonerated on a technicality in 2011 after being prosecuted by the same Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for operating 10 foreign accounts without authorization between 1999 and 2007 while serving as the governor of Lagos State.
In the case of FRN v. Bukola Saraki, which was heard on March 24, 2016, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, said that he had made a mistake when he fired Tinubu.
“We have subsequently realized that we acted in error in dismissing Mr. Tinubu on that issue, and we have since departed from that error regarding the discharge of the former Lagos State governor by the tribunal some years ago merely because the CCB failed to fulfill the precedent,” Umar added. Since Tinubu was never exonerated, it is crucial for both the CCB and the EFCC to review the matter.
In addition to his connections to drug lords, Tinubu has taken control of Lagos State’s finances through a variety of strategies, including property grabs. Before the students were moved to Ikorodu against their will, the Lagos State Polytechnic owned the land on Aladelola Street, Ikosi, Ketu, where his TV station, TVC, is now located.
The owner of his present residence was the Lagos State Government, located in Asokoro, Abuja. On the night of his resignation as governor, Tinubu signed a repulsive bill that would guarantee that he and his family would keep gorging themselves on state funds. A former governor will receive a house in Abuja and Lagos, six brand new cars every three years, 100% of the basic salary of the current governor (N7.7 million annually), and free health care for himself and his family, according to Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law No. 11 of the official Gazette of Lagos State, 2007.
According to the law, a former governor is also entitled to a number of benefits, including a furniture allowance worth 300 percent of their annual basic salary (N23.3 million), a house maintenance allowance worth 10 percent of that amount (N778, 296), a utility allowance worth 20 percent of that amount (N1.5 million), and a car maintenance allowance worth 30 percent of that amount (N23.3 million) (N2.3 million).
A personal assistant will get 25% of the governor’s annual basic salary in addition to an entertainment allowance at 10% of the basic pay (N778,296; N1.9m).
In order to win over Nigerians ahead of his presidential campaign, Tinubu requested that his Man Friday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, abolish the law. However, this has not yet become effective.
Tinubu has persisted in boasting about how he turned the environmental issue at Lagos Bar Beach into a path to economic success by creating Eko Atlantic City. But it was just recently found out that he owns a large amount of property at the Eko Atlantic City.
According to a report in The Punch newspaper on November 1, 2020, Tinubu’s former ADC, Omogbolahan Lawal, was appointed the Oniru of Iruland in order to protect his commercial interests, according to a letter sent to the two politicians by Prince Hakeem Ajasa, a member of the Abisogun ruling house.
Ajasa said in a letter dated October 27, 2020, that he had been chosen to be the next Oniru, but Tinubu summoned him to a meeting and told him that he would have to give up his dream since his business partners were unhappy with his ascension.
Chief Tinubu called our client in for a meeting and told him that his business partners, with whom he worked on his personal project of Eko Atlantic City, had complained to him about our client’s attention to detail and willingness to look into and reveal certain deals along the Iru axis that they would rather keep hidden.
One of the most expensive houses in the nation right now is Tinubu’s multibillion-dollar residence on Queen’s Drive in Ikoyi. If he succeeds, he probably wants to move Aso Rock to Lagos and rule from there.
incredibly affluent kids
The expression “the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree” is true. Folashade Ojo, the daughter of Tinubu, collects fees from business owners in Lagos State in violation of the law.
The sellers at Lagos’ Computer Village said that the high price of computers, phones, and electronics was a result of the levies that were placed on them. After getting frustrated with the situation, the dealers went to the Lagos State High Court for help.
Justice Yetunde Pinheiro’s decision said that Folashade and others couldn’t charge fees to vendors at Lagos’s Computer Village.
It’s interesting to note that Folahsade’s representatives, who are also the Iyaloja-General of Lagos State, have made their way to the Court of Appeal to overturn this ruling so they may keep taking advantage of defenseless traders.
Seyi Tinubu, the son of Tinubu, is the owner of Loatsad Promomedia, a young company that controls the majority of the outdoor advertising along the wealthy Victoria Island corridor. Remember that on the day of the EndSARS shootings, this company shut out the lights at the Lekki toll plaza? Intriguingly, according to a report by the Daily Independent dated June 13, 2019, advertising agencies have vehemently criticized how the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) have continued to unfairly benefit Tinubu’s son’s advertising agency.
In the terrible event that they succeed next month, they intend to reproduce this at the federal level.
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Musiliu Akinsanya, often known as MC Oluomo, Tinubu’s adopted son and the leader of the transport union, runs his business like a mafia boss, extracting billions of dollars per month from transporters. Commercial drivers reportedly pay MC, who is now a member of Tinubu’s presidential council, an average of N225 million each day, or N82.125 billion ($190.6 million), according to a 2021 investigation by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting. Lagos’ prices for products and services have gone up as a result of this.
Integrity issue
The so-called godfather of Lagos politics has persisted in avoiding discussions in an effort to protect his dubious lifestyle from public scrutiny. He might also stay away from events in the future where he would have to make an impromptu speech to a group that wasn’t specifically chosen for him.
Records of Tinubu’s life, elementary and secondary education, genealogy, and even employment remain false. He currently intends to lead Nigeria as president. Imagine a person like that having complete authority over the NDLEA, the EFCC, the Nigerian Army, and the Nigerian Police Force, in addition to the keys to Nigeria’s treasury. The worst scandal in human history will be this one.
In comparison to the kleptocracy of the Sani Abacha years, when more than $5 billion was stolen, the impact will be significantly worse. More importantly, Pablo Escobar cannot be president of Nigeria.
For the avoidance of doubt, Waziri Atiku Abubakar is the former vice president of Nigeria and has been the subject of the most investigations. He has been investigated both domestically and abroad, but nothing can be linked to him. Additionally, he has not been accused of any crimes, either domestically or abroad.
The APC attempted to prevent Atiku from visiting the United States of America even during the most recent presidential election, but this failed. It’s odd that Tinubu hasn’t visited America personally. What makes him afraid is a mystery.
Tinubu is not immune from harm. We hereby demand that the EFCC, the NDLEA, the Nigeria Police Force, the Office of the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation, and the Department of State Services capture him and bring him to justice.
For the benefit of Nigeria, we hereby urge Tinubu, the corn man, to give up his bid for the presidency.
Signed:
The Director of Strategic Communication is Bashorun Dele Momodu.
Atiku Abubakar’s media advisor is Paul Ibe.
Daniel Bwala, Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson
Phrank Shaibu, Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant for Public Relations
Charles Aniagwu, Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson
