FBI begins releasing incriminating files on Tinubu, associates

United States security and intelligence agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has commenced the release of documents linked to the activities of now President Bola Tinubu while in the country, in fulfillment of its promise made in September, this year.

The FBI disclosed that the documents form the first tranche from about 2, 500 files the agency said it compiled from President Tinubu’s activities while resident in the country in the 1970s through to 1990s, before the latter relocated to Nigeria contest the Lagos State governorship seat, which he won in 1999.

The FBI, Wednesday, November 1, sent through the first tranche of files regarding its investigation into the Chicago-Gary Heroin trafficking ring involving Lee Andrew Edwards, Mueez Akande, Abiodun Agbele and Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

While the subject of the cover letter for the first tranche of the #FBIFiles is titled; ‘Bola Tinubu et al,’ actual mention of the latter was redacted following his appeal to a U.S court for an order restraining the FBI from publishing the incriminating files.

It would be recalled that the FBI had disclosed in September, this year that from October 2023, it will start releasing the documents which is expected to contain more details about Tinubu’s drug dealing and his Chicago State University certificate that has female as the gender.

“FBI has identified a total of approximately 2500 pages potentially responsive to FOIA requests 1553430-00 and 1587544-000.

“FBI plans a processing schedule of 500 pages per month, with an initial release anticipated by the end of October 2023,” the U.S. body said in a status report docketed on September 11 at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C.

More worrisome for Tinubu is the fact that the U.S. State Department, Internal Revenue Service, and Drug Enforcement Administration have all indicated readiness to turn over thousands of pages of his records in October.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also said it was collating records of Tinubu for release in compliance with the law.

Meanwhile, the newly-released files sent through are from an FBI/DEA investigation beginning in 1990 that led to the 1992 drug trafficking indictments in this criminal case.

Despite directly mentioning Bola Tinubu only once, the first tranche of the redacted files is said to contain enough information to categorically confirm the 1993 U.S Internal revenue Service (IRS) investigation linking Tinubu and his associates Abiodun Agbele and Mueez Adegboyega Akande to heroin trafficking in Chicago.

The FBI had investigated Andrew Lee Edwards, Mueez Akande, Abiodun Agbele and Bola A .Tinubu in the alleged crimes.

Also, the latest document is the first interim release of information responsive to your FOIPA request, which means that there are more files planned for release by the FBI.

Incidentally, the indicted but now late Mueez Akande, a former police chief, contested the House of Representatives election for Ibadan North East/South East Constituency seat in 2015.

All pages mentioning Bola Tinubu have been taken out of the FBI report until a judge in the country orders for them to be included.

However, the FBI documents further go to show that Tinubu did participate in drug trafficking and money laundering while in the United States.