President Bola Tinubu’s criminal and immigration records in possession of the United States won’t be released until 2026, authorities said in court documents seen by Peoples Gazette.

The U.S. State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation cited ‘unusual circumstances’ for denying to release the records to the public. Following a freedom of information request, the U.S. authorities said even if they were to release the records, it would be at least until January 2026 before they could do so.

A civil lawsuit has now been filed over the matter before Judge Beryl Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C.

Aaron Greenspan, an American public disclosure activist, had filed a request to the FBI, State Department, Department of Treasury, and Drug Enforcement Administration, among federal and local agencies, seeking an urgent release of Mr Tinubu’s immigration and criminal records.

The filings came as Mr Tinubu maintained in court that he did not commit any crimes during his decades-long residency in the U.S. Mr Tinubu also asserted ownership of his identity, despite strong indications, he might have changed names and education records in the past.

Mr Tinubu’s real identity and education records contain omissions and contradictions that he has not explained to the public. For instance, the Nigerian president had said under oath to the electoral office INEC, while seeking to be Lagos governor in 1999, that he attended the prestigious University of Chicago.

The university has since disowned Mr Tinubu. Another American school, Chicago State University, confirmed a Bola Tinubu attended the school but did not say whether it was the Nigerian president. Documents from the school showed that a person bearing Bola Tinubu, who attended the school in the 1970s, was a female.

Mr Tinubu also stated under oath in 1999 that he attended primary and secondary schools in Lagos and Ibadan in the 1950s and 1960s, but he expunged those assertions from his latest INEC application form ahead of this year’s general elections in February. He did not explain why he removed the claims, although there was no evidence that the primary school he said he attended ever existed in Nigeria.

Mr Tinubu, 71, was named as a launderer of proceeds of drug trafficking in U.S. court documents in 1993. He forfeited $460,000 at the time.

The records formed a key part of an ongoing challenge to Mr Tinubu’s election as president of Nigeria before a tribunal hearing election petitions in Abuja. This prompted Mr Greenspan, who runs PlainSite, a website that holds files from American courts and institutions, to file multiple requests to U.S. authorities in possession of documents that could help clarify some of the crucial questions upsetting Nigerian minds.

The State Department is believed to have records of whether or not the person who applied for a U.S. visa and travelled as Bola Tinubu in the 1970s is the same person running Nigeria today.

The FBI could throw more light on how Mr Tinubu became involved in drugs in the U.S. and other criminal charges that he might have faced but which were not in public records.

“This office will not be able to respond within the 20 days provided by the statute due to unusual circumstances,” the State Department said in a May 15, 2023, letter to Mr Greenspan.

Previously on August 4, 2022, the FBI sent a message to Mr Greenspan, saying: “Please be advised that ‘unusual circumstances’ apply to the processing of your request.”

But on March 22, 2023, the FBI said it would try to release all documents relating to Mr Tinubu in its possession, but not until January 2026 at the earliest. Other agencies, including the Department of Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration, also said they wouldn’t release the documents on the same grounds.

The FBI also said Mr Greenspan “failed to demonstrate that the requested information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations and activities of the government.” But the activist promptly responded by detailing how Mr Tinubu’s drug forfeiture case in Chicago drew the most eyes to his organisation’s website over the past year. The website has over 15 million records.

All the agencies have now been summoned to appear in court to show course why records relating to a Nigerian president were deemed unusual and inconsequential to be released to the public.

On July 17, assistant U.S. attorney Jared Littman entered an appearance as the lawyer representing all the agencies, and promptly requested a delay until August 28, 2023, to file a response to the lawsuit, which was instituted on June 12, 2023.


https://www.gazettengr.com/we-cant-release-tinubus-criminal-cases-immigration-records-till-2026-due-to-unusual-circumstances-fbi-state-department-say/

Whitey don concern

What an unusual personality, with unusual exemption and immunity even coming from the FBI.
Grace is really speaking and covering him up.
Well, what will be , has been.
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition.
What an exemptional personality.

Nonsense news..

What a rare gem with so much complicity in all areas of the world......

Same man is taking full responsibility of the black most populated Nation...

Hiaaaann....

Wahala

yinkus6750:
What an unusual personality, with unusual exemption and immunity even coming from the FBI.
Grace is really speaking and covering him up.
Well, what will be , has been.
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition.
What an exemptional personality.

Oga keep quiet, Tinubu is a convicted drug peddling miscreant.
Stop hyping nonsense

If dem wan run pass Terry G,
dem go run mad.

yinkus6750:
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition. .

Stop sounding as if they are getting closer to our scrotum

yinkus6750:
What an unusual personality, with unusual exemption and immunity even coming from the FBI.
Grace is really speaking and covering him up.
Well, what will be , has been.
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition.
What an exemptional personality.

Lol.
It's called blackmail, and it is something that intelligence agencies thrive on and dream of.
Imagine having a salacious dosier of the president of an oil producing and most influential nation in Africa.

That's a gem of a catch.
There is no way they are going to release his records. His records are now a strategic US geopolitical asset.
He is now and permanently their puppet. He must get their permission for any key economic, political or geopolitical decision.

shortgun:

Oga keep quiet, Tinubu is a convicted drug peddling miscreant.
Stop hyping nonsense

You convicted him in your father's beer parlour while serving Gulder and Guinness Stout to Sikuru and Iya Basira?

shortgun:

Oga keep quiet, Tinubu is a convicted drug peddling miscreant.
Stop hyping nonsense

You convicted him in your father's beer parlour while serving Gulder and Guinness Stout to Sikuru and Iya Basira?

What manner of free madness would be making an irrelevant Nigerian be insisting and forcing a non-existing conviction on the American judiciary?

Even those who are at the top of the libelous propaganda you are parroting, have already provided evidence that the dramatis personae was never indicted nor criminally convicted.

He only reached an agreement to forfeit $460k while over $1m of the initially siezed funds were returned to him.

He was never the subject of any investigation, rather funds thought to be suspicious and linked to those who were actually being investigated, were found in the business account of the investment firm he established.

You cannot rewrite history that has already happened without any blemish to Tinubu who continued to frequent the United States without a single detention by the authorities.

Same cannot be said about the propagandists who continue to suffer shameful detentions whenever they arrive the airport of other countries.

Throwback:


You convicted him in your father's beer parlour while serving Gulder and Guinness Stout to Sikuru and Iya Basira?

What manner of free madness would be making an irrelevant Nigerian be insisting and forcing a non-existing conviction on the American judiciary?

Even those who are at the top of the libelous propaganda you are parroting, have already provided evidence that the dramatis personae was never indicted nor criminally convicted.

He only reached an agreement to forfeit $460k while over $1m of the initially siezed funds were returned to him.

He was never the subject of any investigation, rather funds thought to be suspicious and linked to those who were actually being investigated, were found in the business account of the investment firm he established.

You cannot rewrite history that has already happened without any blemish to Tinubu who continued to frequent the United States without a single detention by the authorities.

Same cannot be said about the propagandists who continue to suffer shameful detentions whenever they arrive the airport of other countries.

I hope what they are paying you can still buy fuel @617..lol

David Hyundai and his fellow Obidients would claim Tinubu has bribed FBI with 500 billion dollars.

genkins:

I hope what they are paying you can still buy fuel @617..lol

It is not my fault that all the top presidential candidates all supported the planned subsidy removal of the Buhari regime.

shortgun:

Oga keep quiet, Tinubu is a convicted drug peddling miscreant.
Stop hyping nonsense

And wait sef, Is it not time for someone from your red sanded barren region to also traffic drugs and become a President instead of always ending up in Asian prisons ??

Throwback:


You convicted him in your father's beer parlour while serving Gulder and Guinness Stout to Sikuru and Iya Basira?

What manner of free madness would be making an irrelevant Nigerian be insisting and forcing a non-existing conviction on the American judiciary?

Even those who are at the top of the libelous propaganda you are parroting, have already provided evidence that the dramatis personae was never indicted nor criminally convicted.

He only reached an agreement to forfeit $460k while over $1m of the initially siezed funds were returned to him.

He was never the subject of any investigation, rather funds thought to be suspicious and linked to those who were actually being investigated, were found in the business account of the investment firm he established.

You cannot rewrite history that has already happened without any blemish to Tinubu who continued to frequent the United States without a single detention by the authorities.

Same cannot be said about the propagandists who continue to suffer shameful detentions whenever they arrive the airport of other countries.

Ok I understand now. He is not the main criminal but provided the conduit of the crime. In other words abetting a crime .

Throwback:


It is not my fault that all the top presidential candidates all supported the planned subsidy removal of the Buhari regime.

This is where Obi misfired. His statement provided the base in which Tinubu acted upon. This is also the only reason Nigerians haven't occupied the street.
The question is that who are the oil thieves?

So there's a criminal record. That means he was convicted. I wonder what the "unusual circumstances" are.
Let's see how the case goes.

yinkus6750:
What an unusual personality, with unusual exemption and immunity even coming from the FBI.
Grace is really speaking and covering him up.
Well, what will be , has been.
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition.
What an exemptional personality.

Grace for the criminal you mean?

Criminal records! Whao! Still confirming all many people have been thinking all along. Meanwhile, see how zombies are defending this criminal of a president. Such shamelessness.

Hehehehehehehehehe

chrisxxx:

Ok I understand now. He is not the main criminal but provided the conduit of the crime. In other words abetting a crime .

He would have being jailed if he was abetting a crime.

Ikaeniyan0:
He would have being jailed if he was abetting a crime.

He provided his account to be used for such purpose. Have you forgotten there is a plea bargain in US? Once you confess your crime without walking the legal way your sins are abated.

yinkus6750:
What an unusual personality, with unusual exemption and immunity even coming from the FBI.
Grace is really speaking and covering him up.
Well, what will be , has been.
Even if anything changes tomorrow, he has achieved his life long ambition.
What an exemptional personality.

And you're proud of this? The US will have Nigeria at its fingertips and you should know its not in our best interest. Nigerians are dumb I swear

Throwback:


You convicted him in your father's beer parlour while serving Gulder and Guinness Stout to Sikuru and Iya Basira?

What manner of free madness would be making an irrelevant Nigerian be insisting and forcing a non-existing conviction on the American judiciary?

Even those who are at the top of the libelous propaganda you are parroting, have already provided evidence that the dramatis personae was never indicted nor criminally convicted.

He only reached an agreement to forfeit $460k while over $1m of the initially siezed funds were returned to him.

He was never the subject of any investigation, rather funds thought to be suspicious and linked to those who were actually being investigated, were found in the business account of the investment firm he established.

You cannot rewrite history that has already happened without any blemish to Tinubu who continued to frequent the United States without a single detention by the authorities.

Same cannot be said about the propagandists who continue to suffer shameful detentions whenever they arrive the airport of other countries.

Do you know what is plea bargain? He was the subject of a criminal investigation but for some reason he was able to have a good bargain. All evidence shows that he was part and parcel of the crime. He was not only doing business with the criminals, he was also living together with them. You probably don't know how the justice system works in the US. There are different types of plea bargains

Throwback:


It is not my fault that all the top presidential candidates all supported the planned subsidy removal of the Buhari regime.

I mean what you collect to make this post.