Jeffrey Guterman, a retired American mental health counsellor, revealed on Thursday that he had contacted the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) about the drug trafficking allegations leveled against Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
According to Guterman, he requested that the FBI release its file on Tinubu.
In recent months, there has been speculation about why Tinubu forfeited $460,000 in the United States of America in 1993.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) recently stated that Tinubu was not indicted in any drug-related offenses, resulting in a forfeiture of $460,000 to the US government in 1993, through its team of lawyers at the Presidential Election Petitions Court, at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
The APC informed the Presidential Election Petition Court in Case No. 93C4483 that the funds in the aforementioned accounts, which were held by two commercial banks, were subject to a “civil forfeiture proceeding” rather than a “criminal forfeiture proceeding.”
His defense team insisted that the forfeiture was not a fine, but rather a decree of forfeiture of $460,000 to the US in exchange for the parties’ settlement of the claim.
The ex-mental health counsellor in a post on his Twitter account on Thursday wrote;
I just sent a request to the @FBI to release their file on Bola Tinubu based on the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
Guterman when asked by a Twitter user how long it takes the FBI to release such a document said;
Not sure, but I filed an expedited request because Tinubu’s reported drug trafficking is an imminent threat to the public.