Court documents released by the United States District Court have shown that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was culpable in drug trafficking and money laundering charge instituted against him in 1993.

This latest development put paid to all controversies around the Ikirun-born former Lagos State governor as a political figure with a history of drug peddling and money laundering.

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In the court documents made public on August 10, 2022 by the US court sitting in the district of Illinois, eastern division, but brought to public notice on Tuesday by Peoples Gazette, the court affirmed that Tinubu and his cronies engaged in drug peddling “on a large scale and the operations were substantial”.

Magistrate Rijcklo, who granted the forfeiture order, stated that the funds found in the account numbers domiciled with Citibank and Heritage Bank respectively, operated by Tinubu “represent proceeds of narcotics trafficking and further represent property involved in money laundering in violation of 18 USC §§ 1956 and 1957”.

The court, importantly, “ordered that the funds in the account 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu represent proceeds of narcotics trafficking or were involved in financial transactions” which run foul of US laws.

It was further held by the said court that, “First Heritage Bank shall issue a check in the amount of $460,000 payable to Federal reserve Bank of Chicago and that the funds shall be disposed of according to the law.”

In a manner suggestive of their illicit business, the Tinubu’s successful drug cartel kept a number of bank accounts in the US before the law caught up with them as evidenced in the said certified true copy of the court documents marked 93C.4483 and sighted by FIJ.

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Nigerians who disagree with Tinubu on political grounds and who feel his personal life is questionable have consistently called him out. Many Nigerians have gone beyond verbal accusations to submit petitions to anti-graft agencies and drug control agencies to investigate the two-time governor of Lagos State.

Aside drug-trafficking baggage, which has been hanging over his neck for years, Tinubu has been accused of falsifying his age and altering educational credentials in a clear bid to achieve his lifetime political ambition.

Public scrutiny to checkmate his personal life was recently rekindled over his ambition to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

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However, media records show that in 2003, US Consulate Office in Lagos wrote a letter to Tafa Balogun, the then Inspector-General of Police, saying its records did not indict Tinubu of any wrongdoing at no time in the past within the territory of the United States of America.