Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, has been accused of being indicted and subject to a criminal forfeiture judgment by a United States Court in Northern Illinois, Chicago. The Peoples Democratic Party has claimed that it has every right to contest Tinubu’s eligibility to run in the general elections of 2023.
At a news conference held on Sunday at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, the party’s publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said this.
The APC presidential candidate is “ineligible to contest the February 2023 Presidential election having been apparently indicted and subject to criminal forfeiture sentence for a narcotics-related violation by a United States Court not Northern Illinois,” according to Ologunagba.
Nigerians are outraged by the APC Presidential Campaign’s feeble attempt to mislead the Nigerian people and our democratic institutions after revealing that there was a $460,000 drug money criminal forfeiture judgment against accounts linked to the APC Presidential Candidate.
“The APC has resorted to unleashing hoodlums to attack PDP Presidential Campaign rallies and other innocent Nigerians going about their legitimate endeavors as witnessed in Kaduna and Borno States, in a bid to trigger crisis and scuttle the elections,” reads a statement from the APC. “Seeing that it is technically out of the Presidential contest and further distraught that it cannot also field candidates at all levels in the 2023 general elections due to its illegal and unconstitutional congresse
According to Section 137 (1) (d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the spokesman said, Asiwaju Tinubu is unable to run for president of Nigeria.
In order to emphasize his point, he said that the US Court “Ordered that the funds in the amount of $460,000 in account 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu represent proceeds of narcotics trafficking or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. S1956 and 1957 and that these funds are forfeited to the United States pursuant to 21 U.S.C. S881(a)(6) and 18 U.S.
To disqualify Tinubu, the APC Presidential Campaign Council has accused the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party of sponsoring false information against him.
In a statement released on Sunday, Bayo Onanuga, the PCC’s director of media and publicity, urged the police to look into the dissemination of the falsified INEC statement and bring those guilty to justice.
“The opposition Peoples Democratic Party and its subsidiary Labour Party have realized they have no sure path to victory in the February 2023 presidential election and have increased their campaign of calumny, disinformation, and misinformation by sponsoring fake news against the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” the speaker said.
“They accomplished this by impersonating Festus Okoye, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s national commissioner, and its letterhead. It was intended to mislead the trusting public into believing that INEC was looking into Asiwaju Tinubu’s alleged wrongdoings, which they fervently hoped would eventually result in the front-runner APC presidential candidate’s disqualification.
“Since 2003, when Asiwaju Tinubu was chosen as the presidential standard bearer by the ruling APC, this disgraceful course has also been followed. Asiwaju Tinubu is steadfast and unbreakable, therefore those who chose this cursed route of notoriety lost their gamble.
