Drug Trafficking: Keyamo claims 10 accounts were linked to Tinubu in the US

Festus Keyamo, the spokesman for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign team, revealed that in the early 1990s, US government authorities connected 10 bank accounts to Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, amid charges of drug trafficking.

Keyamo claimed that the United States Government had taken $460,000 as an investment tax deduction from one of the accounts.

On Wednesday, he revealed this while participating in the Politics Today program on Channels Television.

Recently, a court document purportedly indicting Tinubu for money laundering and narcotics trading appeared online.

According to the record made public by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Tinubu was under investigation for narcotics and money laundering 30 years ago.

Speaking on the subject, Keyamo claimed that although the accounts belonged to the APC presidential contender, some might also be attributed to his mother and "relatives."

He said: “The US government said he had not paid tax on those interests. That is all and guess what? The banks are supposed to deduct the tax from the source.

“Out of the 10 accounts, it was only one account – the one in Heritage Bank – that they took $460,000 as tax on interest that he benefited from the investment he made in those accounts.

“In fact, all the money in Heritage Bank was not taken; they took only $460,000 as tax.”