Supporters of Nigeria’s president-elect are lashing out on Twitter after UBerFacts, a reliable facts-promoting platform, published Bola Tinubu’s legal
Supporters of Nigeria’s president-elect are lashing out on Twitter after UBerFacts, a reliable facts-promoting platform, published Bola Tinubu’s legal woes with the U.S. authorities which had him forfeit $460,000 ill-gotten gains from cocaine deals to the American government in 1993.
“In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court found the income came from heroin trafficking,”
UberFacts shared with its 13.5 million global audience at midnight on Monday.
The matter, which jumped up to the number one Twitter trend, rankled Tinubu’s team as high-ranking members of his campaign team — presumably deciding how to best respond and counter the post — have kept mum while the lower-level supporters are unleashing vitriol on UberFacts’s Twitter account in an effort to ridicule and discredit the platform.
The usual surrogates -Bayo Onanuga, Festus Keyamo, Femi Fani-Kayode, Dele Alake- who are quick to jump against the slightest criticism against their principal have all so far kept studied silence, likely strategising to counter UberFacts as they did when Chimamanda Adichie, celebrated Nigerian author, asked the U.S. president Joe Biden not to congratulate Tinubu on his questionable election victory last week.
Despite the certified true copies of his money forfeiture already in the public domain, Tinubu insists he has no criminal record when he registered his presidential ambition with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last year.
The president-elect, all through his campaign, avoided talks regarding his haunting criminal past and his supporters flay anyone or groups who bring up the matter.
Meanwhile, UberFacts has since denied receiving monetary incentive to share Nigeria’s president-elect’s legal woes from narcotics.
“And no I wasn’t paid to post that, in cash, kernel or otherwise,” UberFacts stated in a tweet attaching documents detailing Tinubu’s $460,000 forfeiture of illicit revenue from cocaine deals to the American government.
“For clarification, the source was United States Court documents which are public records and available in their entirety here,” the platform added in the Twitter thread.
