The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization, has said that the forfeited $460,000 by the Candidate of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to the authorities of the United States establishes a connection to drug money.
Kola Ologbondiyan, Spokesperson, Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization, said in a statement on Thursday that “Nigeria as a nation cannot afford to allow an individual with the remotest link to a drug cartel near the Presidential Villa.”
Ologbondiyan said that the mention of Tinubu’s name in connection with a crime bordering on drugs and consequent upon which some monies were forfeited, raises a moral question and issues of serious security threat.
He wondered how Nigeria will cope with a President who would face harassment, intimidation and blackmail by a drug cartel.
He also asked what manner of business Tinubu’s was doing at the time to have $460,000 deducted as taxes.
“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.” He said