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By Myke Agunwa
The presidency has described as “mischievous and politically-mechanised nonsense” the order issued by a United States court, compelling the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release drug investigation records on President Bola Tinubu.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia had ordered US law enforcement agencies to release confidential information generated on President Bola Tinubu during a “purported federal investigation in the 1990s.”
Recall that Aaron Greenspan and David Hundeyin, an investigative journalist from Nigeria, had filed a suit in June 2023 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Executive Office for US Attorneys, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In their affidavit, the duo accused the law enforcement agencies of violating the FOIA by failing to release within the statutory time “documents relating to purported federal investigations into” President Tinubu and one Abiodun Agbele.
But reacting to the development, the Special Assistant to the President on Strategic Communication, Daniel Bwala described the order as “politically mechanised nonsense” ahead of the 2027 election.
Bwala, former spokesperson to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 general election stated in his verified X handle, that the opposition has continued to develop different strategies to ensure Tinubu’s re-election was frustrated.
“Mischievous and politically mechanized nonsense under the guise of US Court Orders FBI and DEA to act. They claim the order was given on Tuesday, but it never saw the light of the media until Sunday
“There is nothing these opposition under the auspices of coalition for a wild goose chase cannot try to do to keep relevance
“They went to meet @MBuhari and it was reported that he insisted the meeting be held in or on camera so that Elrufai would not go and say Buhari is joining SDP and PDP
“Hard as they try, they are still struggling to convince Nigerians that they have any plan at all,e Nigerians that they have any plan at all, needless alternative plan.”
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) however declined comments on the order.
In a telephone conversation with Pointblank News he said, ” I have not seen the order. I will need to look at first because I can make any comments”.
Efforts to get the views of National Publicity Secretary of the ruling all Progressives Congress (APC) Felix Muoka and that of his counterpart in Labour Party (LP) Obiora Ifoh proved abortive as they did not pick their calls nor respond to text messages as at the time of filling this report.