Nigerians have again been treated to another show of shame that came to them from Tinubu without surprise. According to the Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President will depart Abuja today for Europe to begin a three-week vacation as part of his annual leave.
The press release said, the President’s first stop will be London, United Kingdom. Impliedly, President Bola Tinubu is also heading somewhere, after the stopover in the UK. It ended by saying that, the President is expected to return to Nigeria after the working vacation to join preparations and campaign activities ahead of the January 2027 election.
From availed information, Tinubu had since fled, sorry, travelled as announced. The notice for the trip is as economic as the truth it contained, and the reasons are numerous. While we all know where he would end up, as the UK is only a clever trick, to hide the truth in the plan, we hope he won’t refuse coming to hand over.
Tinubu needs to run somewhere for a reset, after the series of salvos served on him, in sequence, by the presidential candidate of the ADC, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar. Long before now, pursuant to the build up to the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, UNGA 81, which is scheduled to open on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, the Presidency, through its disjointed, and often disappointing mouthpieces, has made mouth to Nigerians, that President Tinubu would be attending and participating in the high-level general debates of the Assembly.
Some of the innuendos even suggested that Tinubu would have discussions with President Trump of the United States, on the side-line. Although from day one, I knew they were being economic with the truth, because I know, as far as America is concerned, based on his records, Tinubu would not make the mistake of taking himself there now. As a lawyer, I don’t want to go into the details of his dented records there, but I know he cannot be that foolish.
Before going into the truth of Tinubu’s today’s trip, it may interest the reader to know that, as things stand today, Sunday 30th August 2026, based on the request of Transparency activist Aaron Greenspan, who filed a case, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking to know the historical U.S. law enforcement investigations from the early 1990s, relating to a Chicago-based heroin and drug-trafficking case, wherein the U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, ordered the FBI and DEA to process and search non-exempt records, after rejecting their initial refusal to confirm or deny the existence of the files, the temperature, blood pressure and whatever is left of the stamina in Tinubu, have all changed, and changed for the worse.
Yes, he must have lost stability every where, effective from today, after the American security agencies have fully obliged the court, by submitting Tinubu’s records, which include materials connected to a historic U.S. drug-trafficking investigation, including laboratory testing, controlled purchases, confidential informants, grand-jury activity, surveillance, financial seizures and international investigative coordination.
The 399 pages of documents, revealed that indeed Tinubu had dirty dates against the US laws, and the FBI have been on his trail, hence the persistent appeal to get the matter buried, and buried under the carpet. As a lawyer, much as I know that the existence of investigative records does not, by itself, establish criminal liability or guilt, but on the scale of morality, persistence to conceal the release of information, basic information, establishes the ground to assume the existence of guilt. The records submitted include the FBI’s entire file on Tinubu, including Form 302 interview records covering the period between 1992 and 1993.
It is in the open that Tinubu is connected to a 1993 civil forfeiture proceeding in the United States, involving about $460,000 linked to him. So, the truth in the Tinubu trip today is anchored on the imbalance he suffered, pursuant to the series of hits bellow the belt, given to him by the incoming President of Nigeria,
His Excellency, Waziri Atiku Abubakar. The first was the promise he made to Nigerians, to revisit the issue of fuel subsidy, with a view to subsidising the cost of production, in a way that would translate to fuel subsidy. The second was the disclosure of Tinubu’s real age, which stands at 90 years, and not the questionable, and always conflicting figures he keeps dishing out.
To make matters worse for Tinubu, Waziri Atiku said he can present the facts before a competent court, whenever the need arises. The third and probably the most devastating, is the release of the FBI records. Although with confidentiality, for the judge’s eyes only, but the judge’s eyes are the eyes of the law. And the law does not support lies, the kind of lies that make one completely obstruct the truth in order to embark on a trip.And this is nothing but another show of shame from Tinubu, that came to Nigerians without surprise. Why will the president be vague about his movements.
For sure he will spend more time in France where he will change his engine oil, continue his stem cell treatment and do washing and setting of his nerves. Yeye dey smell….Age can not be cured but can only be managed. There is a God in the affairs of men. Nigeria will be rescued. Nigerians in God we trust.
