Award-winning investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has challenged the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, to a 7-minute open debate, following allegations that a US District Court indicted his principal, Bola Tinubu, for drug dealings and money laundering.
The US court judgment documents resurfaced on Tuesday, November 8, and have been making the rounds on the internet.
The certified court documents indicated that Tinubu entered a plea bargain in which he voluntarily agreed to forfeit some monies found in his account to American authorities in 1993.
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Reacting to the circulation of the documents, Keyamo, in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today Wednesday, denied the allegations, adding that Tinubu was not the treasurer of a narcotics group as being speculated.
“There cannot be an indictment if Asiwaju is not a defender or was not a defendant in that case.
“I repeat it for the umpteenth time, I don’t want to sound like a broken record here. Asiwaju was not a party to that case.
“It was just an account that was sued, not him. It was an account in his name that was sued so how could you indict him if there was no account?” he stated.
In a counter-attack, Hundeyin, who had in July likened the APC presidential candidate to world-class drug lord, Pablo Escobar, in his viral article, “Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord To Presidential Candidate”, faulted Keyamo’s defense for lacking merit.
Taking to his Twitter handle on Wednesday, Hundeyin challenged Keyamo to discuss the story with him on any TV station of his choice.
“Mr @fkeyamo I put it to you that you are a despicable liar and a miserably mediocre lawyer. You cannot lie like this in 2022. I will destroy you in less than 7 minutes if you agree to discuss this story with me on any TV station of your choice. This is an open challenge,” he tweeted.
Keyamo, however, did not react to the open challenge at the time of filing this report.