Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s residence in the United States was used as a heroine drop-off spot.
According to news reports, Tinubu was ordered in 1993 to forfeit $460,000 US dollars in his bank account, which was considered to be the proceeds of drug trafficking.
Obi argued in his petition to the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja that the president was not qualified to contest the February 25 presidential election or any other election in Nigeria because of a United States District Court ruling that ordered him to forfeit monies allegedly traced to drug trafficking.
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The former Anambra governor maintained that Tinubu’s US home as a drop-off point for heroine and subsequently urged the court to remove the president on that ground.
However, in their final written address to the PEPC, Tinubu’s legal team, led by Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, argued that while the drug forfeiture order was issued 30 years ago (1993), Section 137 (1) (e) of the 1999 Constitution says that a conviction expires after 10 years.
Tinubu’s team also contended that the aforementioned judgment cannot be implemented in Nigeria since it has yet to be registered in Nigeria, as required by Section 3 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Ordinance and Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act.
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