By Tony Christian
President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria must have heaved a sigh of relief after the Federal Bureau of Investigation ,FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration ,DEA, requested an additional 90 days from a United States District Court to produce investigative reports related to an alleged drug case involving the President.
Recall that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, had in a rilling ordered the FBI, and other agencies to make public documents that had been a subject of a Freedom of Information Act ,FOIA, lawsuit filed by American activist and transparency advocate Aaron Greenspan.
In addition to the FBI and DEA, other agencies expected to comply with the court order include the Internal Revenue Service ,IRS, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, and the Central Intelligence Agency ,CIA.
Greenspan had between 2022 and 2023, approached the court seeking information about a Chicago-based drug ring in which four individuals, including Tinubu, were allegedly involved.
The case concerns Tinubu’s alleged involvement in a Chicago drug ring dating back to the 1990s.
In the Joint Status Report filed on May 1, 2025, the FBI and DEA informed the court that they needed more time to complete their searches.
Despite this, Greenspan argued that the agencies should produce unredacted versions of the documents they had already identified by next week.
The plaintiff exerted that given the years-long delay already caused by the defendants and the fact that many responsive documents have already been identified, the plaintiff proposed that the FBI and DEA complete their searches and productions by next week, or, at the very least, produce unredacted versions of the already-identified documents by next week, with the remainder completed in 14 days.
According to the plaintiff, the defendants provide no rationale as to why their search for documents should take 90 days.
