Daniel Bwala, the apecial adviser to President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, blamed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Nasir El- Rufai, former Kaduna State Governor for instigating further investigation into Tinubu’s alleged drug dealings case.
Writing on his X handle, Bwala dismissed the report as “politically motivated nonsense”.
Although Bayo Onanuga, Presidential Spokesman had earlier dismissed the reports, saying that ” there is nothing new to prove”, Bwala, while also reacting to the report, described it as ” Mischievous and politically mechanized nonsense under the guise of US Court Orders FBI and DEA to act.”
The Presidential aide who is also a lawyer, also dismissed the orders allegedly handed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records related to their findings on the issue
Bwala, in reference to the recent visit made to former President Muhammadu Buhari, by Atiku Abubakar and Nasir El- Rufai, also described their planned coalition as a ” wild goose chase”
According to him ” They claim the order was given on Tuesday, but it never saw the light of the media until Sunday
“There is nothing these opposition under the auspices of coalition for a wild goose chase cannot try to do to keep relevance
“They went to meet @MBuhari and it was reported that he insisted the meeting be held in or on camera so that Elrufai would not go and say Buhari is joining SDP and PDP
“Hard as they try, they are still struggling to convince Nigerians that they have any plan at all, needless alternative plan” he said
That US District Court in Washington, D.C., was said to have directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to release records related to their investigations into President Bola Tinubu’s alleged links to a drug trafficking network.
In a ruling delivered on April 8, District Judge Beryl Howell ordered both agencies to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and search for non-exempt documents connected to Tinubu.
The court was also said to have ruled that the agencies’ use of “Glomar responses”, refusals to confirm or deny the existence of records, must be lifted.(BusinessDay)
