Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
The Presidency has dismissed as political nonsense, the ruling by a United States of American court ordering the release of documents related to President Bola Tinubu’s by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other anti-drug agencies.
Presidential Spokesman, Daniel Bwala, in a response to the order issued by Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said there was nothing new about the said report that was not already in the public domain.
The US court had ruled that that shielding the information from public view is “neither logical nor plausible.”
The order followed a motion filed by Aaron Greenspan, who accused U.S. law enforcement agencies of violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Greenspan’s request is believed to be linked to a 1993 case in which Tinubu reportedly forfeited $460,000 to the U.S. government due to alleged connections to narcotics trafficking.
But Tinubu’s mouthpiece, Bwala, dismissed the court’s decision as ” a political nonsense,” describing it as “mischievous and politically mechanised nonsense.”
Bwala wrote: “Mischievous and politically mechanized nonsense under the guise of US Court Orders FBI and DEA to act. They claim the order was given on Tuesday, but it never saw the light of the media until Sunday.
The Presidency accused opposition coalition of exploiting the situation for political gain.
“There is nothing these opposition under the auspices of coalition for a wild goose chase cannot try to do to keep relevance.”
Ikengaonline reports that this document was a major issue in the suit by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi challenging Tinubu’s election in 2023, but the Election Tribunal ruled in favour of the President.
