Tinubu may be disqualified over allegations of drug trafficking, money laundering  if… – Bwala

The spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala, had expressed the view that  the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may be disqualified from the 2023 presidential elections over the allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering case in Chicago, United States.

Bwala, acknowledging certified copies of a document recently released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in an interaction on Channels Television,  had declared: “I’m afraid that the conclusion of this case is that, from the eyes of the law . . . Bola may be disqualified from contesting if the matter goes to court.

“Narcotics and money laundering, whether in Nigeria or the United States, is a criminal offence.”

The certified court document revealed  Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 in one of the accounts in Heritage Bank.

Bwala had maintained that: “For the Nigerian people, the source of the money is important, but there is still a cloud around drug related offences and drug related activity with somebody who wants to be the number one citizen of the country,” he said.

“Recently, there was a massive busting of cocaine in Nigeria. This idea of drugs and narcotics is a terrible case all over the world.

“And if someone has that questionable character and is elected as a President, what it means is that it will embolden people who are into those activities. That’s why the person has to come out clean.”