as long as buhari jails tinubu once he gets sworn in...

Hanging out with US Sec of state...

Tale of two clandestine drug related offenders in APC and PDP, Kashamu and Tinubu, now lets see how APC apologists will defend Tinubu now. Remember the rules, it is fair when it is APC and a sin when it is PDP, with that in mind, enjoy the debate.

So Yoruba claimed leader is a drug lord.
Hahahahaha.

Nigerians deserve to know the truth about this Bola Ahmed Tinubu saga. (assuming the info in this report is factual and accurate).

You don't just hand over nearly half a million dollars to Uncle Sam for no reason.

Even though the report says there is no evidence mr tinubu was charged with any crime, WHY did Tinubu forfeit this money to the US government? What was the deal?

alaoeri:
AIT propaganda didn't hold water, this won't even remove a strand of hair from Asiwaju mtscheeeeew.

It didn't hold water, sure…that's why He threatened court suit, hahaha in Swahili

Baddestguyp:
as long as buhari jails tinubu once he gets sworn in...

Jail him coz you, Ait, Nta and Daily Beast don't like him? If you have a good enough case against him take him to court and win a conviction. Until then keep dreaming.

jaybee3:


It's like you aren't getting it bro..

They couldn't link the deposits to specific crimes and he probably wasn't able to provide evidence of where the funds came from hence the forfeiture.


JUDGEMENT:
j, Neither a claim nor answer has been filed on behalf of the defendant funds , accordingly, it hereby
ORDERED that the funds in the AMOUNT of $460,000 in account, in the name of BOLA TINUBU represents proceeds of NARCOTICS or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C ss 1956 and 1957 and therefore these funds are forfeit to the United States

I don tell you already sey the wayo man na SMOOTH CRIMINAL, so........................

fvck! pdp is fvcked, now apc is fvcked? s.hi.t!

Orikinla:
[size=28pt]All these over circulated old news on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not stop him from attending the National Democratic Convention in 2012 and he was not denied visa unlike many of the idi-ots in PDP and their attack dogs who will never get US visa.[/size]

[size=28pt]After all said and done, your useless toad-faced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a crack dealer and addict! DEAL WITH IT!!![/size]

Drug-nubu

help3852:

It didn't hold water, sure…that's why He threatened court suit, hahaha in Swahili

I would take Ait to court too if they air a false, defamatory and politically sponsored smear campaign against me so what are you on about? He was within his rights to do so.
If he hadn't you are the same people who will attack him for not responding or defending himself from those allegations.

hahahahaha, me i just the pass......................

aresa:



Hanging out with US Sec of state...

Obama with Paul Biya who has been the president of Cameroon since 1982.



Chilling with the then Secetary of State Colin Powell

This is just trash.I am not a Tinubu fan but for the US SSS to release part of the money to him and held back part as a default for Tax is to tell you that he had no drug case in the US.

Tinubu enters America and also has worked and even was working with Mobile when the deposits were made. If Tinubu has any drug case in America, he would not be allowed to enter the US or if he enters, he will be arrested and prosecuted.

Op, this is just trash here because I know the US system and a place I have stayed for a long time. Nobody is above the law in America, So, stop writing what you do not know.

I am not a Tinubu fan BUT THIS WRITE -UP HERE IS USELES--SS.

Tinubu is innocent until proven guilty.....how a man with no crime or charges against him can be called corrupt makes no sense...
All I see is jealousy and simply jealousy..
If he was suspected of any crime.....you can be sure that Janadaft would have used it against him ....and not make stupid videos...
Haters always going to hate...
Everybody knows that in d US where I am currently....if they catch u dealing with drugs....they will not be returning your money...not to talk about allowing u into d country... ..over n over again... ...and even meeting their officials..


Sai Tinubu..

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[size=28pt]After all said and done, your useless toad-faced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a crack dealer and addict! DEAL WITH IT!!![/size]

Prince, how is Abuja? Are you helping Oga to pack?

L-R: Mr Manoela Borges, Nigeria Desk in Washington DC, National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; United States .

Decryptor:


[size=28pt]After all said and done, your useless toad-faced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a crack dealer and addict! DEAL WITH IT!!![/size]

American law enforcement is not like their incompetent Nigerian counterparts. If there's a reasonable evidence to indict Tunubu for drug dealing they would have done it.
The article is full of conjectures.

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[size=28pt]After all said and done, your useless toad-faced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a crack dealer and addict! DEAL WITH IT!!![/size]

Tinubu is 10 times finer than you and ur daughter

WisdomFlakes:


According to the same article,

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So what is the point of the whole article if it ain't a hatchet job to smear him when even the almighty U.S never indicted Tinubu?

lets stop beating about the Bush, we all know the truth about Tinubu, even if we choose to play blind because some of us are benefitting from the spoils off him.

He's an accountant, he knows how to cook the books, he's rugged and has connections across the globe that can cover him

Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring
General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria.


Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.


In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.


In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”
Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

Tinubu gave differing accounts for his wealth to Moss. In one phone call from Nigeria, shortly after the U.S. Treasury seized his money, he admitted to wiring $100,000 to Akande’s Houston bank account and to receiving the $80,000 from Akande into his First Heritage account. Tinubu also said that apart from one other account in Fairfax, Virginia, he had no other money stashed in U.S. banks.

Except that there were other accounts. Citibank has a worldwide banking division known as Citibank International where Tinubu stashed an additional $550,000. He also controlled an entity called Compass Finance and Investments Company Ltd., of which Akande and Agbele were directors. Still another nexus of money transfers was uncovered by federal investigators, with cash moving from First Heritage to Citibank to Citibank International, where it wound up in Tinubu’s personal accounts and in those belonging to Compass Finance and Investments. In a follow-up exchange with law enforcement officers, Tinubu changed his story. Just days after conceding that he’d sent and received money to and from Akande, he insisted that he had no financial or business dealings with Akande or Agbele.

There’s no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime. He eventually settled with the district court, turning over $460,000 of the seized $1.4 million, with the remainder released back to him. The Beast tried repeatedly to contact Marsha McClellan, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, but was unsuccessful.

“I’m not surprised at all,” said Virginia Comolli, a specialist on Nigeria and author of Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. “There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash. Even ones who seem fairly clean turn out to have some dark histories.” The perfect case in point is Tinubu’s political project and new president-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammed Buhari, who in 1983 helped overthrow a democratically elected government in a military coup d’etat on the grounds that the government was undisciplined and corrupt. “He resorted to brutal methods, beating up people for not queuing properly and imposing limitations on the media,” Comolli said. “I think a lot of the votes Buhari got were anti-Jonathan rather than pro-Buhari.”

But no doubt, many also came from a savvy fusion of political factions. In February 2013, Tinubu successfully merged his own influential Action Congress party with Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, resulting in the All Progressives Congress. The marriage united Nigeria’s most populous northwest and southwest regions and the ensuing campaign was billed by Tinubu as a “commonsense revolution” against a corrupt and venal incumbency which, in its five years in power, had seen the terrorist group and newly-minted ISIS affiliate Boko Haram thrive. Buhari swept the election with 2.7 million more votes than Jonathan.

Even before that trouncing, however, Tinubu had a relatively positive reputation in Nigeria, according to former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell. “He is widely regarded as having been a highly successful governor of Lagos state,” he said. “Together with Tinubu’s handpicked successor, Babatunde Fashola, Lagos has seen dramatic improvements in everything from practical stuff like garbage collection to the collection of taxes and the provision of public services,” Campbell told The Beast. Though even here, the ex-diplomat admits, Tinubu’s good governance has been clouded by controversy. “He established a company to do the tax collecting in return for a cut and, at one point, Tinubu and Fashola appeared to be splitting over the percentage of Tinubu’s cut.”

Drug charges do indeed appear to be the sine qua non for Nigerian high office. The year 1993, when Tinubu’s assets were seized, was a turbulent period for Nigeria following the cancellation of a national election and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Moshood Abiola, the rightful winner of that election, was accused of narcotics trafficking. So too is “Prince” Buruji Kashamu from the People’s Democratic Party, who has faced extradition back to the United States since 1998. Kashamu was indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for being the elusive “Alaji,” a globetrotting drug kingpin who smuggled heroin into O’Hare International Airport from Europe and Asia. Piper Kerman, the memoirist who inspired the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, famously worked for Alaji. Kashamu denies the charges and insists that he was purportedly a counterterrorism informant to the U.S. government before and after 9/11, and that the real trafficker was his now-deceased brother.

Despite his party’s general loss to the All Progressives Congress, Kashumu was elected in March as senator of the southwest Ogun state. In what appeared to be a magnanimous gesture to the winner, he took out an advertisement praising Tinubu as a role model. The Jagaban was distinctly unimpressed. He trashed the comparison in a statement signed by his media adviser, claiming that for Kashamu “to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain.” Tinubu instructed the “false praise singer” to go face the music in the Windy City before deigning to talk to him.

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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in a chat with John Carson, Assistant Secretary of State, African Affairs of the United States and Howard Jeter, former US Ambassador to .

WisdomFlakes:


Jail him coz you, Ait, Nta and Daily Beast don't like him? If you have a good enough case against him take him to court and win a conviction. Until then keep dreaming.

shut up, all Nigerians know what a big thief tinubu is. anyone that defends him is doing so for his/her pocket

ozoigbondu:
We all know that tinubu is a drug lord and addict yet some gullible fools bought into his fake CHANGE.

Mr ‘integrity' #babaonechance is in bed with an internationally recongised drug lord.What a combination

I don't know the reason why you always think through your anus, honestly....

help3852:
lets stop beating about the Bush, we all know the truth about Tinubu, even if we choose to play blind because some of us are benefitting from the spoils off him.

He's an accountant, he knows how to cook the books, he's rugged and has connections across the globe that can cover him

Cover him for drug dealing in the U.S? That must be a joke. If they have any reason to cage you they will do it no matter who you are.

WisdomFlakes:


I would take Ait to court too if they air a false, defamatory and politically sponsored smear campaign against me so what are you on about? He was within his rights to do so?

that tape gave him some sleepless nights, note that.

Osinbajo had to get an injunction to stop his from being aired.

No matter your affiliations to a person let the truth be told.

Biafranqueeen:


Tinubu is 10 times finer than you and ur daughter

From ChidozieUde to Biafranqueeen? You will soon chop another ban! Idi.ot

aresa:

Obama with the Sultan of Brunei, the King of Luxury and human rights abuses.

At the Chatham....