Through the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has questioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, about his links to drug-related crimes in the United States.
WITHIN NIGERIA previously reported that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had named Tinubu as a defendant in a court case accusing him of drug trafficking, citing a viral document.
Tinubu’s alleged involvement in narcotics and money laundering about 30 years ago was documented in the document.
Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 in one of the accounts linked to the former governor resulted from the settlement.
Tinubu’s team, on the other hand, has categorically denied any links to US drug cartels.
However, in a statement issued on Thursday, Kola Ologbondiyan, Spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa campaign organization, warned Nigerians not to allow anyone with even the slightest connection to a drug cartel to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said;
A President who will be consistently harassed, intimidated and blackmailed by a drug cartel?
It is also disturbing that Asiwaju Tinubu’s handlers are running around an ocean of excuses from where they have been fetching what they believe will convince Nigerians.
We ask; what business was Asiwaju Tinubu running that such a whopping sum of $460,000 would be deducted as tax from his account?
It is easily deductible that the $460,000 removed from the account represented the illicit fund that accrued from the drug. That is why no other sum was removed from the account contrary to argument from Tinubu’s minders that the amount represented a tax.
If indeed, like Asiwaju Tinubu’s handlers have said, Tinubu “took responsibility” for drugs money, it goes with saying that he must also take responsibility for the consequences of that action.
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