Agency Report
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, through the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, has questioned the All Progressives Congress ( APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, over his links to drug related crimes in the United States.
Tracknews earlier reported that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had identified Tinubu as a defendant in a court case accusing him of involvement in drug trafficking, according to a viral document.
The document contained evidence of Tinubu’s alleged involvement in narcotics and money laundering about 30 years ago.
The matter, which ended in a settlement, led to Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 in one of the accounts linked to the former governor.
However, Tinubu’s team has vehemently denied any links to drug cartels in the US.
But speaking in a statement on Thursday, Spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa campaign organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan warned Nigerians not to allow anyone with the remotest link to a drug cartel succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
He wondered how the country will cope with “a President who will be consistently harassed, intimidated and blackmailed by a drug cartel?
“It is also disturbing that Asiwaju Tinubu’s handlers are running around an ocean of excuses from where they have been fetching what they believe will convince Nigerians.
“We ask; what business was Asiwaju Tinubu running that such a whopping sum of $460,000 would be deducted as tax from his account?
“It is easily deductible that the $460,000 removed from the account represented the illicit fund that accrued from the drug. That accounts for the reason why no other sum was removed from the account contrary to argument from Tinubu’s minders that the amount represented a tax.
“If indeed, like Asiwaju Tinubu’s handlers have said, Tinubu “took responsibility” for drugs money, it goes with saying that he must also take responsibility for the consequences of that action.”
