A spokesperson for the All
Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, on
Saturday, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation
on the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for claims linking him to
drugs and drug money laundering.
According to Fani-Kayode, a
former Minister of Aviation, “the authorities in the FBI ‘found nothing’ after
their investigation.”
The controversy surrounding a document released by the US District Court for
the Northern District of Illinois said to have investigated Tinubu’s alleged
involvement in narcotics and money laundering about 30 years ago, a matter that
led to the forfeiture of $460,000 to the US government.
In reaction to the report, the
chief spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council,
Festus Keyamo, on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday,
November 9, 2022, said that the money was tax deducted from one of the 10
accounts linked to Tinubu in the US, adding “he took responsibility for all the
10 accounts because they were also traced to his mother and ‘relatives’.
Commenting on the FBI’s report,
on Saturday, Fani-Kayode wrote in an essay titled, “the obsessions of David
Hundeyin” on his official website, “The $460,000 was seized only as a
consequence of the IRS claiming and asserting that he (Tinubu) had not paid tax
on his numerous American investments.
“Tinubu chose not to challenge or
dispute that claim and assertion by the IRS even though he was perfectly within
his rights to do so and hence he willingly forfeited that money.
“The seizure of the $460,000 USD
had NOTHING [sic] to do with drugs or links to drug trafficking.
“Rather it had EVERYTHING to do with tax and
it was the IRS that claimed it.
“The FBI investigated Tinubu for
links to drugs and laundering drug money and they found NOTHING.
“He came out clean. Most of the
money they originally seized was returned.
“The money that was not returned
had NOTHING to do with drugs.
“Tinubu is a clean, wholesome,
hard-working and innocent man and those making these allegations are simply
trying to derail his presidential ambition.
“They are also filled with hate
and they resent his great successes in life.”
The former minister further
queried if $1 million was later returned to Tinubu, clearing that Tinubu was
not indicted for any crime whatsoever.
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