The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has stated that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a lot of explaining to do, following the release of the certified true copies of court documents on the forfeiture of $460,000 to the United States authorities.
In a statement signed by Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday, November 10, 2022, the Atiku/Okowa campaign stated that the forfeiture linked Tinubu to a drug cartel operating in the US.
According to Ologbondiyan, the funds were forfeited because there were proceeds of illegal drug trade, as opposed to a tax deduction as claimed by Festus Keyamo, Campaign Spokesman for the APC.
The statement reads, “The forfeiture of $460,000 by Tinubu to the authorities of the United States of America establishes a connection to drug money.
“Our Campaign maintains that Nigeria as a nation cannot afford to allow an individual with the remotest link to a drug cartel near the Presidential Villa.
“We insist that the mention of Asiwaju Tinubu’s name in a crime bordering on drugs and consequent upon which some monies were forfeited, raises a moral question and issues of serious security threat.
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“How, for instance, will our nation cope with 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 accounts for the reason why no other sum was removed from the account contrary to the 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.”