By Bukola Olasanmi
Supporters of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have asked Bola Tinubu, to withdraw from the 2023 presidential race for alleged drug related offences in United States of America, and other allegations bordering on perjury filed against him at a High Court in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
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In a statement by the by the Peter Obi Support Network (POSN)’s Deputy Director of Communications, Emmanuel Adesuji, which was made available to newsmen on Sunday, the group said investigations in the public domain has established that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate was involved in heroin trafficking and money laundering in Chicago during the 1980s and early 1990s.
POSN added that Tinubu’s alleged drug dealing, which was extensively reported in a report titled, “Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord to Presidential Candidate,” published in the West Africa Weekly, was a result of months of collaboration between a legal practitioner, Mike Enahoro-Ebah, and a Chicago law firm, Leahy, Eisenberg & Fraenkel Ltd.
The group further said that there were established discrepancies in some of the information the APC Presidential candidate supplied to the INEC in his Form EC9.
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“Information obtained from Tinubu’s U.S. academic and employment records sharply contrasts with the ones given in his INEC Form EC9 and in several media appearances.”
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According to the group, different dates of birth, failure to provide evidence of attendance of a school that appears on his academic record, failure to disclose a secondary citizenship, forgery of a university degree certificate, a potential instance of identity theft and others, were the basis for the legal action filed by Enahoro-Ebah.