Nigerian-US attorney and former member of the House of Representatives, Kayode Oladele,
A former member of the House of Representatives, Kayode Oladele, has urged opposition leaders to stop seeking legal remedies in the United States and instead challenge President Bola Tinubu on policy issues in Nigeria.
Oladele, in a statement on Friday, said that the path to the presidency runs through Nigerian voters, not American courtrooms, as he dismissed claims linking Tinubu to a US criminal conviction.
He said repeated attempts to portray Tinubu’s 1993 civil forfeiture proceedings in the United States as evidence of a criminal conviction were legally misplaced, stressing that he had found no federal court record showing that the President was ever criminally tried or convicted in the US.
“As a federal lawyer practising in the United States, I have examined available federal court records and have not found any court record showing that President Tinubu was ever criminally charged, prosecuted or convicted of any offence in the United States.
