{"id":34287,"date":"2014-12-16T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=34287"},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:09:09","slug":"tinubu-denies-drug-crimes-certificate-scandal-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubu-denies-drug-crimes-certificate-scandal-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Denies Drug Crimes, Certificate Scandal In The U.S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>National leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola<br \/>\nTinubu has denied ever being arrested, questioned or indicted for drug<br \/>\ncrimes in the United States of America in the early 1990&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>The former Lagos Governor also denied reports that he never attended the<br \/>\nChicago State University.<\/p>\n<p>But a document, signed by a former United States Government<br \/>\nNarcotics Attache in its embassy in Nigeria, Andre W. Kellum, said Tinubu<br \/>\noperated an organisation that distributed cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Kellum said that though Tinubu was not subjected to criminal prosecution,<br \/>\nthe fact that he acceded to forfeiting funds to the United States<br \/>\nGovernment was on its own a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu had admitted in court papers that he was involved in laundering<br \/>\nproceeds of drug trafficking in the United States of America and the<br \/>\nproceeds of such illicit drugs or money laundered in the sun of 460,000 US<br \/>\ndollars be forfeited to the United States Government. &amp;#8232;&amp;#8232;<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, in a statement today said all the allegations are smear campaigns<br \/>\nthat have been in the works for years.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads:<\/p>\n<p>The unfolding smear campaign against former Lagos governor and leader of<br \/>\nthe APC, Bola Tinubu, is no surprise. It had been in the works for years<br \/>\nsince the Jonathan-led government realized that Tinubu commanded a<br \/>\npowerful political followership. The successful merger and birth of the<br \/>\nAPC posed the most potent threat to the PDP and Tinubu an architect of the<br \/>\nmerger has become a marked man.<\/p>\n<p>The thought of a Buhari-Tinubu ticket confounds the PDP hierarchy and<br \/>\ntheir crisis-battered president. That Tinubu might be nominated as General<br \/>\nBuhari\u2019s running mate also incenses the small element within the APC who<br \/>\njoined the party not for its progressive vision but to exploit its<br \/>\nplatform to press forward their vision of themselves. Having failed at<br \/>\nhalting General Buhari\u2019s bid, the PDP disinformation machine has thrown<br \/>\nitself into overdrive trying to stymie the selection of Tinubu. Sadly,<br \/>\nsome elements within the APC \u2013 elevating their personal ambition over<br \/>\nparty and national interests &#8212; have lent themselves to this endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>During the Nazi takeover of Germany, madman Adolf Hitler became jealous of<br \/>\nthose within his own party who showed independent thought and who would<br \/>\nnot allow themselves to be bent just so he could satisfy his megalomania.<br \/>\nOutraged, he engineered a purge executing the lot of them. This bloody<br \/>\nscheme became known as the \u201cnight of the long knives.\u201d In Nigeria, we have<br \/>\nentered the \u201cseason of the wrong knives.\u201d<br \/>\nThe recent report on one of the online news websites on the allegations<br \/>\nbordering on his academic qualification is not new. What is new is how<br \/>\ndesperate they have become to stir up a new controversy using an old lie.<br \/>\nIn the past these allegations were successfully rebutted. Recent attempt<br \/>\nto present them as fresh allegations will not go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>The online report, published by Sahara Reporters, claims that Tinubu<br \/>\nwithdrew his support for the ACN in the 2011 election due to blackmail by<br \/>\nthe president. It is rather odd that this report colors Tinubu as the<br \/>\nvillain. If the report were true, he would be a victim. President Jonathan<br \/>\nand his administration would be guilty of the high crime of extortion.<br \/>\nThis tiny consideration seemed not to dawn on the authors of this<br \/>\nscurrilous piece; so fixated on stabbing Tinubu, they implicate their own<br \/>\nboss in wrongdoing. So eager to please their master, Jonathan\u2019s mindless<br \/>\nmen further ensnare him.<\/p>\n<p>If Tinubu had been scared off in 2011, it would make no sense for him to<br \/>\nspearhead the formation of the APC against the same president. If the<br \/>\npresident had such control over TInubu why didn\u2019t the president use that<br \/>\nleverage earlier to scuttle the APC before it gained a strong position in<br \/>\nthe political space? The story makes no logical sense.<\/p>\n<p>The particular accusations in the story further reveal the malice of mind<br \/>\nof those peddling it. They claim Tinubu did not attend Chicago State<br \/>\nUniversity. They cite as their evidence a letter from the US Consulate.<br \/>\nBut if you read the letter carefully, the surname stated is \u201cTinubO\u201d not<br \/>\n\u201cTinubU.\u201d If the University did a computer check on that name, the check<br \/>\nwould come up empty. The culprits likely misspelled the last name so that<br \/>\nthe name search would reveal nothing. This is clever but immoral; it is a<br \/>\nwrong knife.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tinubu has genuine documents and pictures showing him as an<br \/>\naward-winning student at the school. Nigeria should be proud that one of<br \/>\nits own graduated an honor student from an American university over thirty<br \/>\nyears ago when that was more of a rarity than it is today. Instead, his<br \/>\ndetractors want to pretend he never set foot on campus.<\/p>\n<p>As late as August 2012, Tinubu visited the university and was given a<br \/>\nspecial reception and a tour by the school\u2019s president. This would not<br \/>\nhave been done for a stranger. It would have been done for a<br \/>\ndistinguished alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, Tinubu landed jobs with two well established<br \/>\ninternational companies, one the accounting firm Deloitte and Touche and<br \/>\nthe other, ExxonMobil. Such companies investigate an applicant\u2019s academic<br \/>\nbackground. If he had not attended school, these companies would not have<br \/>\nhired him. He would not have excelled in them but he did.<\/p>\n<p>The rumor about drug running is the lowest form of calumny. He has never<br \/>\nbeen arrested, charged or indicted for any drug-related crime. Had any<br \/>\nsuch suspicion existed, the American government would not have granted him<br \/>\npolitical asylum during the Abacha era. Under American law, asylum cannot<br \/>\nattach to anyone who has broken or offended that same law.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Tinubu travels frequently to the states. This means he has a<br \/>\nvisa. American law prohibits visa issuance to anyone reasonably suspected<br \/>\nof drug dealing, let along being convicted of the same.<\/p>\n<p>If I were Tinubu, I would place a wager with the PDP. He should offer to<br \/>\nfly to America if the PDP would also send Mr. Kashamu. Both can fly to<br \/>\nChicago. Then he should bet the PDP who would return to Nigeria first. We<br \/>\nall know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>There is a vicious campaign to deter Tinubu from the APC ticket; this<br \/>\ncampaign is being run from the PDP\u2019s basement. They fear him. They cannot<br \/>\nassail his competence and experience. He has been an able senator and<br \/>\ngovernor. They cannot assail his commitment to democracy. He has<br \/>\npersonally sacrificed more for democracy than all the PDP hierarchy<br \/>\ncombined. They fear his ability to campaign, to get out the vote and to<br \/>\nprotect that vote, especially in the southwest because they know that is<br \/>\nthe pivotal region where the election will likely be won or lost.<\/p>\n<p>These assailants desperately try to scuttle Tinubu\u2019s potential candidacy.<br \/>\nIn that the truth offers them no solace, they resort to lies. They seek to<br \/>\nambush the man under cover of innuendo and untruth. But their aim is off<br \/>\nand their knives are wrong. In the end, what they use to injure him will<br \/>\nturn to point against them. Such is the outcome when one engages in<br \/>\nmalice.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, they seek to prevent a person who may be controversial yet he is<br \/>\nperhaps Nigeria\u2019s most able and versatile politician, strategist and<br \/>\npolicy maker. For perhaps the most gifted politician of his time not to<br \/>\nseek national office is a luxury a nation in this dire circumstance can<br \/>\nill afford. In the end, governance has little to do with religion, region<br \/>\nor rumor. It has to do with vision and competence. The wrong knives will<br \/>\nnever be able to cut that truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34288\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg\" alt=\"BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture\" width=\"588\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg 588w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34288\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg\" alt=\"BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture\" width=\"588\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture.jpg 588w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BolaTinubuHeroinforfeiture-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34289\" src=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a.jpg\" alt=\"a\" width=\"750\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/a-600x960.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; National leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has denied ever being arrested, questioned or indicted for drug crimes in the United States of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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