The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council says it has asked a court of competent jurisdiction to declare Bola Tinubu, standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ineligible” to
In a media conference on Monday in Abuja, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesperson of the PDP campaign, said the forfeiture of funds by Tinubu to the US government shows that he committed infractions that should disqualify him from running for election.
In the documents on a case dating back to 1993, it is alleged that funds traced to the Tinubu in question were linked to proceeds of narcotics trafficking.The documents also showed that the court ruled that the sum of $460,000 in one of the accounts be forfeited to the US government.Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the APC presidential campaign council, said the case didn’t prove that Tinubu was linked to illicit drugs.
“Consequently, our campaign has proceeded to the court demanding the court to declare Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, having been convicted, as ineligible to contest the presidential election by virtue of section 137 of the 1999 constitution .
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