Tinubu Linked With Drug Trafficking By US Court, Not Qualified To Contest Nigerian Presidency – Obi

According to SaharaReporters, court documents from the US connected Tinubu to a drug trafficking case, which led to his eventual forfeiture of $460,000 to the US authorities.

Obi claimed in his petition to the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that the election was marked by several irregularities, the APC candidate’s non-qualification.

He contends that Tinubu’s loss of assets to the US government following a drug trafficking accusation is proof that the former governor of Lagos State broke the law and should be disqualified from standing for office in Nigeria. According to SaharaReporters, court documents from the US connected Tinubu to a narcotics trafficking case, which led to his eventual forfeiture of $460,000 to the US authorities.

On February 18, 2009, the newspaper was able to get actual copies of the verdict in the case of the United States versus Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in which the ‘President-elect’ was accused of huge drug trafficking and money laundering along with other defendants.

The news report from September 16, 2008, How US Federal Authorities successfully Connected Tinubu to Drug Trafficking Ring in Chicago, is directly related to (and further documents) this judgment.

According to the US’s verified complaint of forfeiture, which was represented by Michael J. Shepard, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, “Beginning as early as 1998, Adegboyega Mueez Akande, with others, operated an which distributed white heroin, a controlled substance under Title 21 of the United States Code.

Bola Tinubu finally chose a negotiated settlement with the US government following extensive litigation in which Tinubu maintained that the funds lawfully belonged to him, his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, and his surrogate mother, one Alhaja Mogaji.

Obi based this assertion in his petition on the argument that Tinubu was ineligible to run for office at the time of the election.

Here is his petition

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