Why Nigerians should reject Tinubu, Atiku in 2023 – HURIWA

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Thursday, urged the Nigerian electorate to reject All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar over their alleged involvement in fraudulent activities in the United States.

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, said both septuagenarians cannot be trusted with the treasury of the Nigerian State going by their antecedents and suspicious history.

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The group warned that both frontline candidates have questionable integrity and doubtable source of wealth, noting that Nigeria may become a rogue state should any of Atiku or Tinubu emerge Nigeria’s President at the general elections in 2023.

Fresh controversy has of late surrounded a document recently released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois over Tinubu’s alleged involvement in narcotics and money laundering in the early 90s.

Tinubu’s campaign spokesman, Festus Keyamo, on national television on Wednesday night argued that Tinubu did not forfeit $460,000 in one of the 10 bank accounts linked to him and his relatives. Rather, the US authorities deducted $460,000 from one of the accounts as tax on investments domiciled in US banks.

Keyamo also said Tinubu was roped in the drug trafficking case of two Nigerians who once stayed in separate flats in the same building where the ex-governor stayed at a time in the US.