JUST IN: Tinubu Dragged To Court Over Serious Allegation, Faces Disqualification (DETAILS)

JUST IN: Tinubu Dragged To Court Over Serious Allegation, Faces Disqualification (DETAILS)

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council dragged the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to court on Monday, urging the Independent National Electoral Commission to delist him from the February 25 election on the basis of an alleged criminal case of drug trafficking that resulted in his sentencing by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States and his subsequent forfeiture of $460,000 to the US.

Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, made the demand at a press conference in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan expressed the campaign council’s determination to file for an accelerated hearing in the case in the interest of the nation, noting that Nigeria’s laws do not allow an alleged convict, let alone one convicted of the international crime of narcotics trafficking, to run for office at any level, and that Nigeria cannot afford the embarrassment of having an alleged convict hold office at any level.

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He added that the campaign council is praying the court to “Declare Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, having been allegedly convicted, as ineligible to contest the Presidential election by virtue of section 137 (1) (d) of the 1999 Constitution.

“Compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately delist Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the APC or any other political party for that matter and expunge his name from all materials and documents related to the 2023 presidential election.

The Directorate of Strategy and communications of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council on Sunday asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Department of State Security, DSS, and the Inspector General of Police, IGP to arrest and prosecute Mr Tinubu for the alleged crime.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the United States Court in sentencing Asiwaju Tinubu ordered, ‘that the funds in the amount of $460,000 in the name of Tinubu represents proceeds of alleged narcotics trafficking or were involved in financial transactions in violation of 18 U.S.C. S1956 and 1957 and therefore these funds are forfeited to the United States pursuant to 21 U.S.C. S881(a)(6) and 18 U.S.C S981.’

“From the declaration of the court and the sentencing, it is clear that Asiwaju Tinubu was summarily convicted by the court, took no step to challenge the judgment but acceded to the forfeiture of the $460,000 found to be the proceeds of narcotics trafficking.

“It is already established that trafficking in narcotic is an international crime which all nations are obligated by international conventions and statutes to arrest, prosecute and implement any court judgment imposed on offender anywhere in the world, as well as the consequential effects of such judgements,” it stressed.

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Ologbondiyan further noted that “Nigeria is a signatory to such international conventions and therefore is mandatorily obligated to implement the consequential effect of the conviction imposed on Asiwaju Tinubu by a court of competent jurisdiction in the criminal case of trafficking in narcotic.