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2023: How Tinubu Can Be Disqualified From Contesting – Bwala

Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, can be disqualified from the 2023 presidential election if he’s dragged to court over narcotic and money-lanundering allegations.

A spokesman for the Atiku/PDP Presidential Campaign, Daniel Bwala, dropped the hint during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.

He said Tinubu may be disqualified from contesting the 2023 presidential elections over his connection to a drug trafficking case in the United States.

“I’m afraid that the conclusion of this case is that, from the eyes of the law . . . Bola may be disqualified from contesting if the matter goes to court,”

“Narcotics and money laundering, whether in Nigeria or the United States, is a criminal offence,” Bwala quipped.

Stonix News reports that Bwala was commenting on the controversy surrounding a document recently released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The document contained evidence of Tinubu’s alleged involvement in narcotics and money laundering about 30 years ago.

The matter, which ended in a settlement, led to Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 in one of the accounts linked to the two-term former governor of Lagos State.

Mouthpiece for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, had, on Wednesday, contended on Channels Television’s Politics Today that Tinubu was not indicted in the matter and had no case to answer.

Bwala, however, argued that the issue at stake was a matter of character.

“For the Nigerian people, the source of the money is important, but there is still a cloud around drug related offences and drug related activity with somebody who wants to be the number one citizen of the country.

“Recently, there was a massive busting of cocaine in Nigeria. This idea of drugs and narcotics is a terrible case all over the world.

“And if someone has that questionable character and is elected as a President, what it means is that it will embolden people who are into those activities.

“That’s why the person has to come out clean,” he had argued.

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