President Bola Tinubu has made move to block records relating to him from being disclosed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA and other United States services.
Court filings seen by Peoples Gazette showed thet President Tinubu’s lawyers in the U.S. have filed motions to appear in an ongoing freedom of information action brought against the U.S. organisations where records that may help answer questions about the president’s real identity and decades-long endeavours are domiciled.
Christopher Carmichael, one of the lawyers who represented President Tinubu in the recent Chicago records case, filed the motion, dated October 18, 2023, stating that he was a lawyer in good standing to appear in the case in the FOIA lawsuit underway in Washington D.C.
The FBI said it was planning to release the records before the end of October to Aaron Greenspan, the proprietor of PlainSite, a website that pushes anti-corruption and transparency in public service.
Several other U.S. institutions, including the U.S. State Department, Internal Revenue Service,IRS and Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA have all indicated readiness to turn over thousands of pages of Bola Tinubu-related records.
The Presdent’s move comes two weeks after he lost a fierce battle to block a federal court in Chicago from releasing his academic records to Atiku Abubakar, his main political rival in Nigeria.
The school ultimately released the records, which showed that a certain Bola Tinubu was admitted into the school in 1977.
