Presidency reacts to US court Judgement to FBI over the release of Documents on Tinubu
The presidency has responded to last Tuesday’s decision by a Washington, D.C. judge, instructing the US FBI and DEA to release documents associated with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
On April 8 2025, the United States court for the district of Columbia ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records of their investigations on the alleged involvement of Tinubu in drug trafficking.
Beryl Howell, the district judge, ruled that the FBI and DEA “must search for and process non-exempt records” in line with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The judgment was delivered following a suit filed by Aaron Greenspan, an American and founder of PlainSite.
Greenspan had filed 12 FOIA requests with six different US federal government agencies to request the criminal investigation information of the Chicago heroin ring that operated in the early 1990s
In a short statement on his X ( formerly Twitter) , Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to the President on Information and Strategy said the report did not in any way indict President Tinubu
He says “There is nothing new to be revealed. The report by Agent Moss of the FBI and the DEA report have been in the public space for more than 30 years. The reports did not indict the Nigerian leader. The lawyers are examining the ruling.” –
Also in his reaction, the Presidential special adviser on policy communication , Daniel Bwala in an interview with Channels Tv said the report has been released for decades and there’s nothing new
He saia : “As of today, the substance of the matter is that the court dismissed the application to join the CIA with respect to FBI records having been released before, but if you think there is any other one that has not been released, come on May 2, and I can guarantee you that on that day, the court will come to the findings that there is nothing.”
