According to Peoples Gazette, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will commence turning over around 2,500 documents that are related to President Bola Tinubu in its database.
A new court filing obtained by the outlet reveals that FBI would start releasing the documents effective October ending at 500 pages every month.
In a status report docketed on September 11 at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., the FBI said: “FBI has identified a total of approximately 2500 pages potentially responsive to FOIA requests 1553430-00 and 1587544-000. FBI plans a processing schedule of 500 pages per month, with an initial release anticipated by the end of October 2023.”
The unexpected move came after the FBI’s earlier reluctance to turn over the documents in line with a freedom of information request first filed in 2022. Aaron Greenspan of PlainSite, a website that pushes anti-corruption and transparency in public service, filed the request with journalist David Hundeyin.
The revelation will clarify outstanding questions about when Tinubu came to the U.S., the name he entered with and every activity he has been involved in ever since. Tinubu spent many years in the United States. From the look of things, he appeared to have moved there first in the 1970s. More details about his forfeiture of $460,000 over drug dealing in Chicago in the 1990s will be part of the records to be released.
Tinubu’s background still remains a mystery for most citizens as questions about his real parents and childhood education have not been left unanswered.
The FBI, the U.S. State Department, Internal Revenue Service, and Drug Enforcement Administration have all shown readiness to turn over thousands of pages of Bola Tinubu-related records. Also, the Central Intelligence Agency said it was collating records of Tinubu for release in line with the law.
The development came as Tinubu’s prior claims around his admission into Chicago State University (CSU) come under extra scrutiny with a fresh lawsuit by Atiku Abubakar, his major rival at the 2023 presidential election.
Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago has fixed September 12 to hear in-person arguments of the lawyers of Messrs Tinubu, Abubakar, and CSU and clarify the scope of the subpoena of Mr Tinubu’s academic records to be turned over to Abubakar.
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