The controversy surrounding the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, does not appear to be going away anytime soon as new documents recently released further nail his public records.
According to Tinubu, he worked as a consultant accountant at the multinational firm, Deloitte in the 1980s.
He claimed he made $1.8million working for the firm when asked about his unexplained wealth.
An independent journalist, David Hundeyin, wrote to Deloitte office in New York.
Deloitte responded that Tinubu has no record of working with the firm at any point.
Hundeyin posted on Twitter that Tinubu’s claims of making money working at Deloitte may have further nailed him which confirms speculations in some quarters that he must have made his money from narcotics trade and money laundering.
According to Hundeyin, “Bola Ahmed Tinubu has claimed that he made $1.8 million from salaries and bonuses while working a consultancy job at Deloitte USA.
“So, we subpoenaed Deloitte USA to provide evidence of Tinubu’s employment and staff payment records, and this is what came back…”
It’s all fake, Tinubu’s camp reacts
The Tinubu’s campaign declared the documents released by Hundeyin as fake.
QUEST TIMES contacted Dele Alake, Special Adviser (Media and Communications), Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council on the development. He said “You better be careful about peddling fake documents again like Arise. I hope you know Arise is being sanctioned by NBC?”
When our reporter probed further, the former Lagos State Commissioner of Information and Strategy asked if he was so sure Hundeyin’s documents weren’t fake. He asked “So how are you sure it’s not fake?! Arise also thought the inec letter wasn’t fake!”
He said further “That a story is circulating online doesn’t mean it’s not fake. You want to balance a fake story…”
When asked to react to the allegation that Tinubu didn’t work at Deloitte, Alake said: “Isn’t that the same issue they base fake document on?”
We also spoke to Bayo Adedosu, a member of the APC presidential campaign council and coordinator of the Progressives Clan.
According to him: “There is a big flaw in the alleged Deloitte letter that people are not catching. The word “subpoena” is a legal term which is a process used by a Judge in a case to compel a witness to appear before the Court in a legal matter to give evidence under an Oath.Â
“For the avoidance of doubts, Lawyers don’t do subpoenas…..they only assist the Court in serving the process on a witness. The Deloitte letter was addressed to an individual which makes a mockery of the word and Court processes.
“If a presiding Judge had issued a subpoena on Deloitte, Deloitte would have had to enter an appearance through its lawyers and give both oral and documented evidence.”
Deloitte keeps mum
QUEST TIMES contacted Deloitte to confirm or deny Hundeyin’s documents. As of the time of filing this report, they have not responded to our inquiry.
Other efforts to get them to comment on the matter proved abortive.