By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar has told the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI that citing “danger to lives” cannot justify withholding potentially disclosable records on President Bola Tinubu from public scrutiny, insisting that ordinary Nigerians are already paying with their lives for the President’s economic policies.
The FBI had filed a motion seeking to submit ex parte in camera declarations on why it withheld information about its investigative records relating to allegations of drug trafficking against President Tinubu.
In an application dated August 20, the FBI told the US district court in Columbia that it cannot publicly explain all the reasons it is withholding certain records, hence the need for an ex parte in camera declaration.
In a statement issued Saturday in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president dismissed the FBI’s stated rationale for secrecy as ironic given the hardship he said Nigerians were living through.
