The presidency has stated that there is nothing new in the records that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration have been ordered to reveal on President Bola Tinubu.
This came after a Washington DC judge ordered the two agencies to produce non-exempt data related to previous investigations concerning Tinubu.
Responding to media enquiries on Sunday, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, stated that the reports in question had been public for over 30 years and did not implicate the Nigerian leader.
“Journalists have sought the presidency’s reaction to the ruling last Tuesday by a Washington DC judge ordering the US FBI and DEA to release reports connected with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Onanuga wrote in a social media post on Sunday.
He added, “Our response is as follows. There is nothing new to be revealed.
“The report by Agent Moss of the FBI and the DEA report have been in the public space for more than 30 years.
“The reports did not indict the Nigerian leader.”
He noted that the presidency’s lawyers are now reviewing the verdict.
This follows a ruling last Tuesday by Judge Beryl Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who ordered the FBI and DEA to reveal non-exempt materials linked to a drug trafficking investigation.
The order came after Aaron Greenspan, an American and inventor of the legal transparency platform PlainSite, filed a lawsuit contesting the agencies’ refusal to acknowledge or deny the existence of such documents.
