The United States Court has released a Certified True Copies of the sum of $460,000 drug money forfeited by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu for trading in drugs.
The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 general election was said to have laundered drug money in Chicago, United States.
Barely 19 years after after the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois delivered judgement ordering the forfeiture, the Certified True Copies have been released.
Rumours of APC presidential standard flagbearer have been rife in recent times, especially after he emerged from the APC presidential primary, with some Nigerians looking up to see evidence of his alleged involvement in drug trafficking in Chicago, where he spent part of his life.
As the news of Tinubu’s involvement keep trending, there was no official reaction from his Campaign team or the All Progressives Congress which platform he uses.
Those, who are however, working to down play the report are his personal associates, saying that it’s being decades the issue happened in a far away country.
The 56-page document released by the district court’s headquarters in Chicago did not include crucial new details, but it further confirmed snippets of the matter that had been shared spontaneously by the media for years. Journalist David Hundeyin also reignited interest in Mr Tinubu’s drug-dealing background following a July 13 article in West Africa Weekly.
The latest certified copies of the court case, obtained on August 10, showed Mr Tinubu and two others named K.O. Tinubu and Alhaji Mogati were involved in banking proceeds of illicit drugs and money laundering with Heritage Bank and Citibank.
It was not immediately clear whether or not ‘Alhaji Mogati’ was a misspelling of Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, Mr Tinubu’s foster mother, who passed on in 2013.
