MUST READ: Tinubu’s Ties With Drug Barons Exposed

former Lagos state governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The former Lagos state governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been battling rumours of his past deeds in narcotics throughout his political life.  

In 2011, Tinubu was arraigned  at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over what is described as misdemeanors committed while in office as Lagos State governor.

The rumours seem to have re-surfaced again as the US-based Daily Beast today wrote on the alleged role Tinubu played in drug trafficking in the United States of America.
According to the report, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI and IRS has gone unreported.

Tinubu’s wife, Remi (who is a Senator) was also mentioned in the report

Tinubu was reportedly identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin dealers who operated in Chicago. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, who were 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 uncover cop.
The report, however, states that there is no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime. He was said to have eventually settled with the court that pursued the case, turning over $460,000 of the seized $1.4 million, with the remainder released back to him.
Read the full report on Daily Beast
Tinubu, was recently tagged as the political godfather who caused Jonathan’s fall by the Financial Times Newspaper. The headline in the influential newspaper also described him as the Machiavelli of Nigerian politics

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