President Bola Tinubu has asked a United States federal court to block the release of unredacted records held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration relating to him.
In filings published on Saturday, his lawyers argued the records are protected under US privacy laws and that disclosure would not serve any legitimate public interest under American freedom-of-information laws.
The filings were made by Christopher Carmichael, Victor Henderson and Oluwole Afolabi on behalf of the President. They were responding to a request by US transparency activist Aaron Greenspan.
Tinubu’s reasons for blocking the records
Tinubu’s legal team said the US Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act restrict disclosure of personal information in federal law-enforcement files.
