The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI has said it would not release any confidential documents or information on President Bola Tinubu to the public.
The United States federal agency made this known on Monday in response to a suit filed before the United States District Court of the District of Columbia by an American activist, Aaron Greenspan.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have said Greenspan is merely seeking to reargue his position on which the court has already ruled.
The agencies asked the court to deny the plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration, adding that based on the earlier order, they didn’t plan to release documents, even if they have them, about the Nigerian leader, as he is entitled to his privacy.
Aaron Greenspan is seeking to compel the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to release documents about President Tinubu and one Mueez Adegboyega Akande.
The activist had filed an application for the court to reconsider its ruling on October 23, rejecting his emergency motion for the release of the documents and information he is seeking in the substantive suit he filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Greenspan had earlier claimed that the Nigerian Supreme Court deliberately moved the hearing of the appeals by Atiku and Obi to October 23 to render his suit before the U.S court nugatory, contending that the documents he requested “would likely be directly relevant to the foreign proceedings in Nigeria.”