Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, a witness for President Bola Tinubu in the ongoing presidential election dispute, has admitted that the $460,000 that the Nigerian leader forfeited to the United States came from a narcotics business and money laundering.

Mr Bamidele, a politician from Ekiti and long-time protege of Mr Tinubu’s, was at the election petitions tribunal on Wednesday in Abuja to give testimony against Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party.


Mr Bamidele, while being led in his testimony by senior lawyer Lateef Fagbemi, said Mr Obi joined the opposition Labour Party while he was still holding his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, another opposition party.

Among other documents, Mr Bamidele tendered the membership registration file of the Labour Party as of April 25, 2022, which showed that Mr Obi was not a member because his name could not be found on the list. The party’s registration document for Anambra also did not include Mr Obi’s name as of that period.

Peoples Gazette first reported Mr Obi’s exit from the PDP on May 25. Prior to that day, he had been a frontrunner in the bid for PDP’s presidential ticket. He formally announced his Labour membership two days later on May 27.

However, the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal said Mr Obi did not violate electoral law, even though he became the Labour’s presidential candidate on May 30, less than a month after he joined the party. The electoral law specified that an aspirant must have been a member of a political party for at least 30 days to be eligible to be a candidate.

The highlight of Mr Bamidele’s testimony came when he admitted under cross-examination by Mr Obi’s lawyers that Mr Tinubu indeed forfeited over $460,000 in illicit drug proceeds. The case occurred in the United States in the 1990s when Mr Tinubu was living in Chicago. The politician had declined to address the forfeiture for several years, despite its domination of headlines in the run-up to the presidential election on February 25.

Livy Uzoukwu, a senior lawyer handling Mr Obi’s case, asked whether or not Mr Bamidele know that the forfeiture was connected to narcotics dealing, to which he responded yes. He also responded that he understood there was money laundering involved in Mr Tinubu’s matter prior to the final forfeiture.

Mr Bamidele, who recently became the majority leader of the Nigerian Senate, appeared to be the most high-profile associate of Mr Tinubu to confirm the forfeiture and narcotics background of the former Lagos governor, who was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on May 29, following his controversial declaration as winner of the February presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

https://gazettengr.com/tribunal-bola-tinubus-witness-senator-bamidele-admits-nigerian-president-forfeited-460000-for-narcotics-dealing-money-laundering-in-u-s/

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has endorsed Peter Obi for President. With this, Igboho joins other prominent Yoruba like Obasanjo, Pa Adebanjo etc.

NDC POSITION ON THE FORTHCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Our Ref: NDC/PS/003/2023

Thursday 23rd February, 2023

https://twitter.com/ND_Congress/status/1628771609136824324?t=k6qAc4NqUknUr6ddK-tEuA&s=19

marenalexander7:
The three powerful contestants to the nation's highest office are Asiwaju Bola Ahmad Tinubu of the APC, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Most at times pundits and analysts make comparison amongst these candidates to see who is the most qualified to take the mantle of leadership of this country after the expiration of President Buhari's tenure as the President of this great country. To me, having regards to their track records and political wherewithal to take this nation to the highest pedestal of excellent leadership, Asiwaju Bola Ahmad Tinubu is the most qualified candidate, but also should not be compared to these candidates whose track records are nothing to write home about

Which track record does Tinubu has? Most of the projects you guys claim he did are PPP. Yet he left a 100 billion debt for Fashola.
You are trying to sell failure. Make campaign start first.

ImperialYoruba:


You must be omoibo. Very thin skinned.

Must every thing and everyone that dissaproves of Obi get a response?

Can Obi not be positively criticized without his supporters firing an attack?

Get out!

Rest oga. I wrote this in plain English; address what I wrote or look for something important to do with your life.
If you want to criticize Obi; do it logically and not looking for loopholes to equate him to the likes of Tinubu; which is one of the campaign strategies of the APC and PDP.

The whole post by Ijeoma Nwogwuwgwu, Arise TV CEO focused more on Peter Obi than the like of Atiku and Tinubu. And she's not being sincere.
Firstly, this is the first time Peter Obi is seen publicly holding political meetings with Nigerian politicians abroad and any rational person will know why.
Peter Obi has met with Wike and his group severally in PortHarcourt. He has also visited several politicians in Nigeria.

Here's why Peter Obi meet with Wike in UK ?
- Peter Obi was on transit to Germany where he would hold a program today with Nigerians in Germany. He announced this on twitter.
- Wike was already in the U.K. He stayed back after his meeting with Tinubu on monday or so.
- Wike also has a meeting with Atiku; and they obviously choosed U.K.

So in essence, the whole U.K meeting point was for Wike's convenience and Peter Obi just took advantage of it. So why try to call him out?

Atiku and Tinubu has been holding political meetings abroad, long before the election even started. Tinubu was even reportedly in Paris, which was why he didn't attend the NBA convention. Yet no noise.
Expect to see more of these attacks on Peter Obi. The goal is to equate him with the other politicians and wane the current wave he's enjoying. Let's see how far they can go.

Lol. Peter Obi people have raised the standards.
The problem is that everyone saw obidients planning their own walk and inviting people online.

Where did PDP plan their walk? I never saw anything of such online. Yet they are all wearing printed shirts.
You get the point �

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Ijoh:

I'm fully Ijaw from Bayelsa.
Even Peter Obi Governor ask his people to vote Apga Presidential Candidate of which is not Peter Obi.
Douye Diri ask us to vote Atiku that is of the PDP.

You expect Soludo to ask them to vote Labour Party?
LP is a competitor. They have candidates for all elective positions; so they'll come for his position in 3 years time. You don't expect him to support them. The question is who listens to him?

Apga also had a candidate in Anambra in 2019 but PDP with Peter Obi got over 90% of the votes.

Bayelsa will blvote for who GEJ chooses not Diri. Bayelsans are already tired of PDP, which is why they voted for Lyon. If GEJ publicly supports Peter Obi, then he will sweep the state.

Ijoh:


Continue lying to yourself.

Point out where I lied. You are obviously not a Niger Deltan if you think Peter Obi will lose Bayelsa or Rivers.


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Lol. Peter aobi is really giving you guys nightmares and campaign haven't started yet. Imagine when Tinubu is forced to speak and he him and Atiku starts throwing shade at each other; while Peter Obi builds on.

Una go cry.

Asari Dokubo. @ Tinubu

Godsday Orubebe @ Tinubu

Farah Dagogo @ Atiku


General Ditari

1. No one takes Asair Dokubo seriously. He has no electoral value.
2. Orubebe is only known for his Outburst. If he had electoral value, he would be contesting.
3. Farah Dagogo is a political thug with no influence in Rivers state. He can only mobilize cultists. Luckily Wike is ready for him.
4. General Ditari: I haven't even heard that one's name before and you are calling him an In-aw leader?

- Ijaw leaders are GEJ, who will likely support Peter Obi.
- JP Clark - who will likely support Peter Obi because of Tinubu's Muslim-muslim ticket.
- Topolo: who APC is trying to bribe with oil deal after killing his father. Would stay neutral or support whoever GEJ chooses.

All those people you called can't even sway their ward not to talk of local government.

MamaFryo:


No, he may not have anything to do with the importation of rice, he is one of them. US dollar is not the strongest, America doesn't have the best economy in the world, but when we talk about those who brought down the value of our Naira through importation of goods, instead of exportation; my clueless brother, your Peter Obi is part of them.

How does importation bring down the economy of a country when it's more expensive to produce in this country.
Peter aobi was importing since 1990s. The company was in existence even when Obasanjo was in office. Why didn't the naira rise to 710 since then.
Instead of admitting that the Dumbo you guys elected caused the catastrophy.

MamaFryo:
You are complaining that Naira is now ₦705 to $1. How do you think that happened? It is not only Buhari’s fault. Every time your one and only Mr. Integrity, Peter Obi brings a ship loaded with foreign goods into Nigeria, he is driving down the value of the Naira. Importers are killing the Naira and you are there being obedient...

#YeyeDeySmell

You are dumb. Is Peter Obi also the one who increased the price of rice? Even the U.S has been importing most stiluffs from China. Why hasn't the dollar collapsed. Rest. You don't know anything.

How can you look at Peter Obi and claim he demolished mosque? Even Wike knows how sensitive that is.

femisplash:

The rally he went to in Osun, did he pull 200?.. Clown.
The rally in Nassarawa was fake.

Was the Osun rally for Peter Obi?
Someone said the criteria to become an APC supporter is to not have sense. You just prove it right.

Expected. Kwakwanso always pulls crowd wherever he goes. Same as Atiku and Tinubu.

The difference with Obi is that he doesn't have to be there to pull crowd. And he doesn't even know of the planning most times.

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Yemmie24:
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Just thinking about the tfare is giving me panic attacks
I need a female with a house already around that side,even agege or ikeja That I can come and stay with for 2weeks
At most 300go 300 come
Just want to test the job for the rest of this month
To decide if I would be moving over there for it
I can pay

It’s urgent I start Monday

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Richy4:


I am glad it was not affecting your friend's marriage.. Before your friend and the husband started, the husband of your friend may have explained the circumstances surrounding their friendship.. and your friend may have accepted... That's why she did not see her as a threat whatsoever in their relationship...

But the man should know when to draw the line though.. especially the Sunday aspect of the whole thing...That the wife was not saying anything does not mean they should over stretch her patience...

Though I don't understand your last highlighted statement... do you mean ending their relationship on your friend's behalf or you were asking should such situation happens to you, is it ok to end it as a wife?

I am a close friend with the lady who is calling someone's husband.

Richy4:
OP, what about a situation where the single lady and the guy were childhood friends before he became a "Married man"..
That one follow abi e no follow?

Would your wife be happy if your childhood friend calls you every day, even by 11pm?

They live together in the same neighborhood, goes to the same church.

After church, the man waits for my friend so they can go hom together, while the wife leaves with the kids according to her.

- They go on dates, just for fun according to her.
- She goes to meet him at his shop.
- The man spend most of his Sundays at her place.
-- He has asked her out. But she said she refused.

The bottom line is that she says they are not dating and she isn't affecting their marriage in anyway.

That's my grouse with the whole thing. Because I think she has made herself an alternative to the man's wife.

I asked her to at least end the late night calls, and she agreed to do that. But I just found out that she called him 6 times around past 11pm until he picked up.

The reason I made this post is because I'm not comfortable being friends with her keeping such kind of relationship.

I know what most women pass through in their marriage. She's in her 30s and is looking for someone to settle down with. But won't respect another person marriage.

I just wanted to know if I would be overreacting if I end our friendship.

. Sega has lost relevance.
The funny thing is the Peter Obi has not responded to him once despite all of these.

Abeg leave Sega.

Do you have an extra room in your home?

Then you can list on Rentic to earn up to 50k monthly.

Check my signature to learn more.

Charles Odigbo is spokesperson to some group. He's not even LP campaign spokesman.

I have a female friend who's single. She's a good person, but I noticed an unusual closeness with this man, who happened to be married.

She says the man was just a friend from church and they had nothing going on.
She said the wife was suspicious at first; but the husband explained to her and now they are fine.

However, I noticed that they call each other everyday; which was okay.
I warned her to stop allowing the man call her, especially at night. Which she promised to work on.

I was trying to check something on her phone, when I noticed that not only was the man just calling her. She calls him close to midnight, sometimes, repeatedly until he picks.

My question is, can or should a lady have such relationship with a married man. Kind of a married man bestie who she go places with and calls in midnight?

Are you telling us that a 61-year old man is a youth?
Peter Obi never claimed to be a youth. Rather he says the youths are running through him.
Moreover, when faced with a 75 years old man, an 86 years old and 61 year old, any same person will chose the youngest and more agile candidate.


Now that you have faulted the two biggest parties, is Peter Obi not a product of PDP?

Yes. Those are the strongest party and typically you need to be part of a system to change it.
Luckily, we've found a way to change the system without them.


If Peter Obi is good at economics, why has Anambra never been among Nigeria's top ten richest states?

Anambra is one of the most stable states in Nigeria. They've never owed salaries since Peter Obi.


Tell me about 1 country in the world that became rich by only saving money and not investing it. only 1.

Every country in the world saves money in gold. It's what makes their currency strong. Even small businesses don't spend everything they earn.



Do you think Peter Obi, who watched the doctors go on strike for 13 months when he was the governor of Anambra, will ever have the solution to Nigeria's problems?

Doctors went on strike in almost every state of the federation because of payment increase. Peter Obi offered a 50% increase, but they refused it.
Fashola threatened to sack Lagos doctors at this time.


Can you pray that the alcohol that Peter Obi is selling to the youths of Nigeria never departs your household?

Can you pray that the drugs that Tinubu was dealing never leaves your household?
Importing beverages; even achohol is legal. Drugs isn't.

Why has Peter Obi never for a day condemned the killings of IPOB? Don't the live people that IPOB is killing have value?
Why has Tinubu never condemned the OPC? Why did Tinubu insist on a referendum when Goodluck in 2009?


Can you boldly tell us that in Anambra, Peter Obi's rule for 8 years is better than the state that you were born in?

Anambra state was created in 1991. While Lagos state existed before independence and became a state in 1967. Yet at least you are comparing both states.