The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that Senator Opeyemi Bamidele’s testimony at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal validated its argument that President Bola Tinubu’s $460,000 forfeiture was linked to drug racketeering.
Recall that Senator Bamidele, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Witness-in-Chief, stated last Wednesday that President Tinubu was not facing any criminal charges in a US court.
The Senate Majority Leader claimed that a forfeiture order issued by an American court against the president for $460,000 did not substitute criminal charges because it related to a civil issue.
The APC legislators also alleged Tinubu was not proven guilty and received no punishment.
However, the PDP stated in a statement over the weekend that Bamidele’s testimony further indicates before the Presidential Election Petition Court that Tinubu forfeited $460,000 obtained from heroin and narcotics trafficking in the United States.
Bamidele, according to the party, was unable to defend the statistics released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as results of the 2023 presidential election in Kano State because he was not in the state and was also not at the collation center on the day of the poll.
The statement reads: “The testimony of Opeyemi Bamidele, one of the star witnesses of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, further confirms before the Presidential Election Petition Court that Bola Tinubu of the APC forfeited the sum of $460,000, which he earned from trafficking of drugs, narcotics in the United States of America (USA), and did not disclose same to INEC in his nomination forms.
“Though, Bamidele in his defence before the Lord Justices opined that the $460,000 forfeiture was civil and not a criminal act.
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“He cannot defend the spurious figures declared by INEC as results of the 2023 presidential election in Kano State because he was not in the state and was not also at the collation centre on the day of the election.
“Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC only made 19.5 per cent in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and didn’t score up to 25 per cent as stipulated by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999 as amended).
“Two presidents before the fraudulent announcement of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president made 25 per cent in Abuja, and Tinubu is the first to be wrongly declared without getting the stipulated 25 per cent in Abuja.”
According to the PDP, with the substantial evidence before the court, Nigerians and the rest of the world expect the courts to do the right thing and recognize its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the genuine winner of the election.
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According to the largest opposition party, the judiciary has a great responsibility to ensure that justice is served because Nigeria’s future is at stake.
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