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Bayo Onanuga: Tinubu’s involvement in drug crimes was over 10 years ago, he can now be president

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March 27, 2023
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Bayo Onanuga: Tinubu’s involvement in drug crimes was over 10 years ago, he can now be president

Bayo Onanuga, chief spokesman for President-elect Bola Tinubu, has stated that the cocaine business of his principal in the United States is not enough reason to halt the actualisation of his presidential ambition.

He noted that Tinubu’s indictment in drug trafficking happened over 10 years ago and cannot, therefore, be used as ground to nullify his victory at the polls last month.

Onanuga made the assertion recently while responding to a tweet from Ayo Obe, another stooge of Tinubu, who said the president-elect cannot be sacked by the Supreme Court because his established drug trafficking case in Chicago was already statute-barred.

“The Obidiots don’t read. They live in a cocoon of falsehood and contrived propaganda,” Onanuga slammed Twitter users who called him out on his controversial remarks on the platform.

Obe cited Section 137 (1)(e) of the Constitution which said a Nigerian cannot be elected president within 10 years of a conviction for offences brought by the Code of Conduct Bureau.


The section said: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if within a period of less than ten years before the date of the election to the office of President he has been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty or he has been found guilty of the contravention of the Code of Conduct.”

Obe, however, ignored the preceding section of the Constitution, Section 137 (1)(d), that disqualified anyone that had been fined for any offences in the past from becoming president. That section, which applies to Mr Tinubu’s forfeiture of over $460,000 due to drug crimes in Chicago in 1993, did not specify any timeline under which a convict can be released to run for Nigeria’s presidency.

It only said: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if he is under a sentence of death imposed by any competent court of law or tribunal in Nigeria or a sentence of imprisonment or fine for any offence involving dishonesty or fraud (by whatever name called) or for any other offence, imposed on him by any court or tribunal or substituted by a competent authority for any other sentence imposed on him by such a court or tribunal.”

In 2014, the Supreme Court defined forfeiture as punishment for an offence under Nigerian criminal statutes.

“The word “forfeiture” means – “the divestiture of property without compensation. The loss of a right, privilege, or property because of a crime, breach of obligation, or neglect of duty,” the court ruled on January 17, 2014, in Mohammed Abacha and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In a majority decision delivered by now-Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the court further stated: “A person who has forfeited property on the basis of a crime cannot be entitled to indemnity. Forfeiture is a form of punishment. There is no indemnity in our criminal procedure.”

In the election petition filed by Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi against the declaration of Mr Tinubu as president-elect in the February 25 presidential election, Tinubu’s drug case is among the key grounds for Mr Tinubu’s disqualification.

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