By Eric Elezuo

The presidential campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to respond to the allegations that he forfeited a whopping sum of $460, 000 to the United States government; amount allegedly believed to be proceeds of drug trafficking.

In a statement signed by the spokesman of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign organisation, Hon Kola Ologbondiyan, the group noted that Tinubu should stop hiding behind a finger, and come out to respond or defend his involvement.

The statement observed as absurd Tinubu’s reluctance to come out in the open to respond to the matter but rather engage in unleashing his media aides to attack Nigerians, wondering how those who were not witnesses to the act should be the ones struggling to respond, thereby leading to discordant voices from his camp.

The statement reads:

The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation tasks the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to come out boldly and defend his reported link to the whopping sum of $460,000 he forfeited to the United States rather than hiding behind a finger, and sending his media aides to attack other Nigerians.

Our campaign insists that the burden before Asiwaju Tinubu is to cleanse himself of being linked to illicit funds by a court in the United States rather than searching for scapegoats and pointing index finger on others whereas the remaining are pointing to his direction.

Is it not absurd that rather than proving his innocence by personally telling Nigerians the truth about the forfeiture judgment, Asiwaju Tinubu is allowing  his aides, who were not principal witnesses in the crime, to issue threats and vituperations on Nigerians?

This accounts for why the campaign is singing discordant tunes on taxation while Asiwaju Tinubu himself is labouring to dismiss the case as “a rumour.” This is very laughable!

Our campaign wants Asiwaju Tinubu to know that Nigerians are still waiting for him to address the very serious issue of alleged link with narcotics for which a forfeiture judgment was imposed on him.