Lawyers representing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have tackled President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima over their final submissions that the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja should not nullify their clients election victory over a 30-year-old United States District Court judgement.

In 1993, Tinubu was ordered to forfeit 460,000 US dollars in his bank account suspected to be proceeds of narcotics deals.

Obi noted how the US judgement allegedly cited Tinubu’s US home as drop off point for heroine, urging the court to remove the president on that ground.

THE WHISTLER reports that in his petition, Obi argued that the president was at the time of the February 25 presidential election not qualified to contest the polls or any other election in Nigeria because of the United States District Court judgement that forced him to forfeit monies allegedly traced to drug trafficking.

But in their final written address at the PEPC, Tinubu’s legal team led by Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN contended among other things that while the said drug forfeiture order came 30 years ago (1993), Section 137 (1) (e) of the 1999 Constitution states that a conviction has expired after 10 years.

Tinubu’s team also argued that the said judgement cannot be enforced in Nigeria because it is yet to be registered in Nigeria in line with the clear provisions of Section 3 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Ordinance and Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act.

But in his final address dated July 20, Obi’s lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu, told the PEPC that Tinubu till date has not challenged the Order of Forfeiture made by the US Court, implying he has admitted to have forfeited monies traced to narcotics deals.

Uzoukwu added further that the US judgement noted an investigation by the country’s custom which allegedly discovered the president’s home as drop off point for heroine.


“The import of the Order was to underscore that the Proceeding in Exhibit PAS above (Forfeiture Proceedings), based among under things by the revelation/finding in the Affidavit of Kevin MoSs, a Special Agent and investigator on- financial crime, moneylaundering and narcotics trafficking, inter alia that “interviews with investigators from the US Customs Service disclosed that the address at 7504 S. Stewart Avenue is known as a drop-off point for packages from Nigeria that contain white heroin….” and that in the application to open his account at First Heritage Bank, Ilinois, Chicago,” (Tinubu) stated that his address was 7504 South Stewart,” Uzoukwu stated.


He argued that one of the provisions of the law the US court declared was violated was 18USC$ 1956, which outlaws money laundering.
Uzoukwu stated that money laundering amounts to a crime under Nigerian laws.
Uzoukwu urged the PEPC to dismiss Olanipekun’s argument that a foreign judgement has to be registered in Nigeria before it can be enforced on a citizen of the country.

Uzoukwu held that what the law requires is that “a party who intends to rely on the judgment of a Foreign Court must comply with either of two options, namely: as follows: (a) by sealing the judgment with the seal of the foreign court; or (b) by a copy certified by the legal keeper with a certificate or of a notary public or of a consul or diplomatic agent stating that the copy is duly certified by the officer

Was just passing

Yj090:
Was just passing

Make we wait for helinues and yarimo to come cry 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Make yarimo also known as helinues come out and defend this.
FP

Make wuuna allow Tinubu breathe oo🤣🤣🤣

Reason why it's necessary for all post election hearing be done & dispensed with before inauguration.



These court hearings are a mammoth of distraction for the president . I can feel it from here

Whatever Tinubu's house was for, it doesn't state why Peter Obi lost the election... And his manhood that he's looking for was not stolen by Tinubu's heroin house.

You went to court that your brother cheated you in an election and that you are in fact the winner, court told you to present your facts of how you actually were cheated and you are stating that your brother was a thief before.... You could tell the court how he cheated you, you premised your submission on the fact that he was a thief and you think the judges are fools ...

This distraction doesn't mean we will not talk about Obi's disqualification....he was not a legitimate LABOUR PARTY member during the election....it was proven in court...

Next!

PlayerMeji:
Whatever Tinubu's house was for, it doesn't state why Peter Obi lost the election... And his manhood that he's looking for was not stolen by Tinubu's heroin house.

You went to court that your brother cheated you in an election and that you are in fact the winner, court told you to present your facts of how you actually were cheated and you are stating that your brother was a thief before.... You could tell the court how he cheated you, you premised your submission on the fact that he was a thief and you think the judges are fools ...

Next!

Bola is a cocaine sniffing ajasco

Cry

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ondoterrorist:



Bola is a cocaine sniffing ajasco

Cry

😂😂😂😂😂😂

and so

In fact, he is a drug don! Whatever name you can call him!

But he is your MR. PRESIDENT!

😭 😢

Ondoterrorist:



Bola is a cocaine sniffing ajasco

Cry

😂😂😂😂😂😂

PlayerMeji:
In fact, he is a drug don! Whatever name you can call him!

But he is your MR. PRESIDENT!

😭 😢

Person when win election dey wail?
😂😂😂😂😂

Curious346:
Make wuuna allow Tinubu breathe oo🤣🤣🤣

No sleep for the wicked

PlayerMeji:
Whatever Tinubu's house was for, it doesn't state why Peter Obi lost the election... And his manhood that he's looking for was not stolen by Tinubu's heroin house.

You went to court that your brother cheated you in an election and that you are in fact the winner, court told you to present your facts of how you actually were cheated and you are stating that your brother was a thief before.... You could tell the court how he cheated you, you premised your submission on the fact that he was a thief and you think the judges are fools ...

This distraction doesn't mean we will not talk about Obi's disqualification....he was not a legitimate LABOUR PARTY member during the election....it was proven in court...

Next!

lol see hypocrite

OK

MASTAkiLLAh:
lol see hypocrite

Body don dey pepper on ya mandate boys


😂😂😂😂😂

All these IPOB WhatsApp group news weh dey floor Nairaland like this 😄😂😀

Na new agenda be this ?

Or this a means to cushion the Ekpa sit at home frustration 😀😂😄😀


All way na way. Enjoy your false jooy 😀😄😂

Zombie+es no dey tire

This is how Festus Keyamo was shamelessly trying to hoodwink gullible Nigerians that "Bola Tinubu "mistakenly" shared flats with drug barons." when the man has been a confirmed criminal all his life;
-Certificate forgery,
-Identity theft, bullion vans,
-Dual Guinean-Nigerian nationality,
-Fake agbadorian bishops hirer,
-Association with the worst antisocial elements( MC Oluomo, Tony Kabaka, Asari Dokubo, etc).

Ondoterrorist:


Body don dey pepper on ya mandate boys


😂😂😂😂😂

atarodo and Cameroon pepper mixed together for the îmbeciles

Op you have to drop the link to be certain is not a fake news
I know Thiéfnubu the cocaine president can do anything evil. Just drop link

PlayerMeji:
In fact, he is a drug don! Whatever name you can call him!

But he is your MR. PRESIDENT!

😭 😢

Wrong he's the president of cocaine sniffers and addicts. The person I am quoting knows what I am talking. No sane Nigerian Worships a drug lord the way Thiéfnubu supporters do including the person I am quoting.

PlayerMeji:
In fact, he is a drug don! Whatever name you can call him! But he is your MR. PRESIDENT!

...The troubles with Bola Tinubu’s candidacy are enormous. Some are within his control, while others are not. No candidate for the presidency of Nigeria has ever come into the campaign with much political baggage as Tinubu, not even Muhammadu Buhari. We can find in three folds everything wrong with Muhammadu Buhari in Bola Tinubu.

The self-inflicted personal baggage of Tinubu is well known to all. His inability to present a straight biography is one of them. Nothing about him is straightforward; his age, his name, his certificates, his schools (primary, secondary, university), his parents, his source of wealth, the state of his health, his ever-changing ideology, etc. Even his classmates are unknown.

Though possession of a crooked biography has never stopped anyone from being the president of Nigeria, the case of Tinubu is so egregious. They are coming at a point when Nigerians are less tolerant of such character flaws.

It does not help that more and more Nigerians are beginning to see the correlation between such flaws and the performance of the bearer, as Muhammadu Buhari exemplified.
https://www.thecable.ng/why-bola-tinubu-lost-the-2023-presidential-election/amp

Propaganda and biased reportage will kill Ipob obingo fake Jews and manhood seeking Nincompoops... PBAT till 2031... 4+4=8... PBAT is the GOAT...

PortHarcourtcit:
Propaganda and biased reportage will kill Ipob obingo fake Jews and manhood seeking Nincompoops... PBAT till 2031... 4+4=8... PBAT is the GOAT...

bro take it easy plzzzzzzzz

Curious346:
bro take it easy plzzzzzzzz

IPob apologists should let PBAT Breatheeeeee plzzzzzzz

PlayerMeji:
Whatever Tinubu's house was for, it doesn't state why Peter Obi lost the election... And his manhood that he's looking for was not stolen by Tinubu's heroin house.

You went to court that your brother cheated you in an election and that you are in fact the winner, court told you to present your facts of how you actually were cheated and you are stating that your brother was a thief before.... You could tell the court how he cheated you, you premised your submission on the fact that he was a thief and you think the judges are fools ...

This distraction doesn't mean we will not talk about Obi's disqualification....he was not a legitimate LABOUR PARTY member during the election....it was proven in court...

Next!

Yes, my myopic brother. It does not state why Obi lost the election, but it goes a long way to state why Tinubu CANNOT be our president.

PortHarcourtcit:
Propaganda and biased reportage will kill Ipob obingo fake Jews and manhood seeking Nincompoops... PBAT till 2031... 4+4=8... PBAT is the GOAT...

Your tears are as sweet as wine, brother. Take it easy, you are pouring some on the floor. Allow it to flow jejely

MASTAkiLLAh:
atarodo and Cameroon pepper mixed together for the îmbeciles

A swear

Ola9ja23:
All these IPOB WhatsApp group news weh dey floor Nairaland like this 😄😂😀

Na new agenda be this ?

Or this a means to cushion the Ekpa sit at home frustration 😀😂😄😀


All way na way. Enjoy your false jooy 😀😄😂

Cry harder

Bola Ahmed na Thief

Ondoterrorist:


Cry harder

Bola Ahmed na Thief

The President of ya country na Thief, wetin Poor Hungry Peasant like you come be?

Stone03:



Yes, my myopic brother. It does not state why Obi lost the election, but it goes a long way to state why Tinubu CANNOT be our president.

You are still living in illusion myopic minded thing, you want to cut your nose to spite your ears?