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TRIBUNAL: U.S Customs Discovered Tinubu’s House Was Used As Drop-Off Point For Heroine – Peter Obi

Published by Tope Fakinlede on July 24th, 2023.

TRIBUNAL: U.S Customs Discovered Tinubu’s House Was Used As Drop-Off Point For Heroine – Peter Obi

FCGs reports that Lawyers representing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have tackled President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima over their final submissions that the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja should not nullify their clients election victory over a 30-year-old United States District Court judgement.

In 1993, Tinubu was ordered to forfeit 460,000 US dollars in his bank account suspected to be proceeds of narcotics deals.

Obi noted how the US judgement allegedly cited Tinubu’s US home as drop off point for heroine, urging the court to remove the president on that ground.

FCGs gathered Tinubu’s team also argued that the said judgement cannot be enforced in Nigeria because it is yet to be registered in Nigeria in line with the clear provisions of Section 3 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Ordinance and Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act.

But in his final address dated July 20, Obi’s lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu, told the PEPC that Tinubu till date has not challenged the Order of Forfeiture made by the US Court, implying he has admitted to have forfeited monies traced to narcotics deals.

Uzoukwu added further that the US judgement noted an investigation by the country’s custom which allegedly discovered the president’s home as drop off point for heroine.