The polity is heated up for the upcoming 2023 presidential election. Amongst the presidential contenders, the most notorious is the person of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. People describe him to be carrying a lot of loads around his neck; hence why it is difficult for his followers and party members to market his personality to the general public.
No doubt, he is a good politician but he has a bad personality, smeared with scandals, controversies, court cases, medical unfitness, etc.
Despite the fact that he is old and his appearances indicate that he is not medically fit to be contesting or join in an active campaign, he also chose to fly the same religion ticket (Muslim -Muslim); him being a Muslim also chose another man who is of the Muslim religion to be his running mate thereby showing a sign of religious bigotry, who may relegate other religion if elected to be the president. His running mate is someone who has in a series of investigations fingered to be a Boko haram terrorist apologist.
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The supporters of Bola Ahmed Tinubu have done a great job in packaging their candidate as a saint and the messiah but it is a pity that once they cover up a scandal, another scandal rises up as a plague. show up. The current problem they are tackling now is the denial of Deloitte that Bola Ahmed Tinubu never worked for them, hence they do not have his employment record in their database. Bola Ahmed Tinubu had previously claimed to have worked for Deloitte and he stated that most of the money in his account was made while in active employment as a staff of Deloitte.
His involvement in the narcotics trafficking and money laundering scandal in the United States is also dealing a heavy blow to his presidential aspiration. Most of his followers have publicly defended him that he was never involved in drug trafficking but the certified true copy of the court documents stated otherwise.
No matter how much the followers and supporters of Tinubu want to twist it, I have gone through the 58 pages court documents over and over again, the court process did not just indict Bola Ahmed Tinubu for drug trafficking, he was also indicted for Money laundering, his wife, Oluremi Tinubu was also mentioned to be involved in the laundering scheme, hence why his bank accounts were confiscated and he forfeited a whooping $460,000 which was deemed to be proceeds of crime, the crime being drug trafficking.
No matter the rule of interpretation you want to employ in interpreting the court documents or the technicalities you may want to involve to deceive the general public; The summary of the court document is that Tinubu was indicted for Drug trafficking and Money laundering and he was forced to forfeit $460,000 to the United States of America which is a proceed of crime.
It is embarrassing that People like Festus Keyamo, SAN, a respected senior lawyer will publicly want to deceive the general public and intentionally want to bend the truth just because of politics. He claimed that Tinubu only shared an apartment with Mueez Akande (the man who ran the drug empire), hence why he is mentioned and that Tinubu was never involved in drug trafficking. I’m quite sure he has gone through the court documents and just for politics threw caution to the wind to deceive the public and it is a shame.