Tinubu’s Alleged Drug Case Takes New Turn as US Firm Hints at Video Evidence

A US-based political advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has indicated it may provide video evidence in connection with the alleged drug trafficking case involving Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu.

The firm shared this information in a post on its verified X account on Monday.

They believe the video evidence could challenge President Tinubu’s attempt to claim privacy protections over records held by the FBI and DEA related to his alleged drug-trafficking past.

“We are amending our Supplemental Notice of Evidentiary Exhibits to the US court to include the attached video transcript. The video is really extraordinary.

“At an All Progressives Congress, APC, political event, Mr Adewale Tinubu, President Tinubu’s reported nephew, said, ‘I did that case in Chicago. It was one of my first legal matters,’ and described personally urging Tinubu to settle.

“Yet the official court record identifies Patrick S. Coffey, Esq. as the attorney representing President Tinubu in that case. No court appearance, pleading, signature, or other filing lists Mr Adewale Tinubu as counsel in the proceeding. Not a single record.

“Why does this matter? First, court records show that Mr Adewale Tinubu’s account is false. Second, the video shows, in real time, the falsification of facts to deceive the Nigerian public. Facts President Tinubu now claims are private. Third, President Tinubu is asking the court to protect his alleged heroin-trafficking records from the public. Yet his own nephew publicly discussed the Chicago proceeding at a political campaign event while Tinubu was present.

“President Tinubu cannot have it both ways. US courts have long recognized that voluntary public disclosure can diminish the privacy interest protected by Exemption 7(C). The FBI and DEA must realize that President Tinubu is a liability and that his alleged drug-trafficking records are just another Epstein file.

“Whether under the current Republican administration or a future Democrat administration, those files will eventually be released to the public,” the firm tweeted.