The Chief Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was behind the circulation of court documents linking its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States.
Keyamo said this while reacting to the controversy surrounding the release of documents by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois which investigated Tinubu’s alleged involvement in drugs and money laundering about 30 years ago.
The matter, which ended in a settlement, led to the forfeiture of $460,000 in one of the accounts linked to the former governor of Lagos State.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday, Keyamo said the PDP is scared of the rising profile of Tinubu ahead of the 2023 elections.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment said the opposition party keeps bringing the issues up anytime Tinubu wants to run for office.
Keyamo insisted that there was no criminal indictment or conviction against Tinubu, alleging that the PDP went to the US to dig up the documents and pretended that they went for high-level engagement.
He said: “His (Tinubu’s) detractors kept bringing up these issues over and over when his political profile is rising when he wants to run for office or any political turn in his life, they will bring up these issues.
“The date on the papers flying up and down, the date of certification is 2022, so they are using this to confuse people that these are fresh papers. If documents are 40 years old or 100 years old, once you go to court, and apply for certified true copies of those documents, they will give you those documents but they will stamp the day they are giving you those documents.
“This is what our detractors, the PDP, perhaps that is what they went to the US for when they pretended that they went for high-level engagement. This is part of the high-level engagement they went for.”
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