By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum has called on Nigeria’s elder statesmen, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar, and former Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku, to end what it described as their “graveyard silence” over unresolved questions surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s past records, following developments in an ongoing legal battle in the United States.
President of the Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, Chief Akin Malaolu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI had confirmed in court filings that its records concern a criminal investigation involving drug-trafficking offences and that Tinubu was the subject of that investigation.
“This does not amount to a conviction, nor should anyone pretend that an investigation is proof of guilt. But it is unquestionably a matter that should concern every well-meaning Nigerian,” Malaolu said, adding that questions arising from a documented criminal investigation by a foreign law-enforcement agency go directly to issues of transparency, integrity and the international standing of the Nigerian state.
The group noted that Obasanjo was President when Tinubu served as Governor of Lagos State, and questioned whether the Federal Government at the time did everything within its powers to properly establish the facts.
