PDP, Reno Omokri, blast APC, Keyamo over Tinubu’s denial of Forfeited $460,000

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, and the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, in collaboration with Reno Omokri, a social commentator, have blasted  the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the spokesperson of the Tinubu presidential campaign organization, Festus Keyamo SAN, over the denial of the U.S. certified court document that revealed the drug trafficking and money laundering case, and the resultant forfeiture of $460,000 by Tinubu to the U.S. government.A spokesman of the PDP presidential campaign council, Kola Ologbondiya, in a statement, declared:  “Our campaign maintains that Nigeria as a nation cannot afford to allow an individual with the remotest link to a drug cartel near the presidential Villa.
“We insist that the mention of  Tinubu’s name in a crime bordering on drugs and consequent upon which some monies were forfeited, raises a moral question and issues of serious national security threat.
“How, for instance, will our nation cope with a president who will be consistently harassed, intimidated, and blackmailed by a drug cartel?
“It is also disturbing that 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  Tinubu running that such a whopping sum of $460,000 would be deducted as tax from his account?”
Ologbondiyan stated  that it was easily deducible that the $460,000 removed from the account represented the illicit fund that accrued from the drug.

Ologbondiyan further declared: “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 Tinubu’s handlers have said, Tinubu ‘took responsibility’ for drugs money, it goes without saying that he must also take responsibility for the consequences of that action.”
Reno Omokri also accused Keyamo of telling lies. Omokri in an article he published on Instagram titled: “Incontrovertible Proof That Festus Keyamo Lied About Bola Tinubu’s Drug Related Asset Forfeiture, recalled that “on November 9, 2022, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, appeared on Channels TV’s Politics Today and told the presenter, Seun Okinbaloye that the monies Bola Tinubu forfeited to the US Government was just tax.

Omokri declared: “To show that Festus Keyamo is a liar whose words can’t be trusted, consider that whereas he told Seun the money Tinubu forfeited was tax, right there on paragraph 1 of the court document, it says the funds were forfeited pursuant to 21 U.S.C. section 881. That section of the US Code deals with DRUG MONEY!
“The section of the US Code reads as follows: The following shall be subject to forfeiture to the United States and no property right shall exist in them:
(6) All moneys, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for a controlled substance or listed chemical in violation of this subchapter, all proceeds traceable to such an exchange, and all moneys, negotiable instruments, and securities used or intended to be used to facilitate any violation of this subchapter.
“Please note that the words “controlled substance” refers to narcotics, or to put it simply, hard drugs, such as white heroin, which Bola Tinubu’s cartel was trafficking in.”

Omokri maintained: “And to show that Festus Keyamo lied to Seun, the account was opened in December of 1989, and frozen in January of 1992. The money in the account could not have generated enough revenue to attract a $460k tax bill in just 2 years. This was a forfeiture of DRUG MONEY. Pure and simple!”

The Court documents from the United States clearly exposed  that Tinubu forfeited $460, 000 to the American government in 1993 over complicity in hard drugs dealings and money laundering. The $460, 000 was forfeited from his account with Heritage Bank.