A United States-based political advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has disclosed its next line of action about the alleged drug trafficking case linking Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu.
In a post on its verified X handle on Sunday, Von Batten-Montague-York said the title of its next briefing to the Donald Trump administration and Congress about the case is that most of Nigeria’s senior government officials are rushing to protect President Tinubu.
It slammed the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, for claiming that its fight for the release of Tinubu’s alleged heroin-trafficking records is a ‘storm in a teacup; a journey to nowhere.’
“The world should then ask a simple question: Why then is a cabinet-level Nigerian Minister spending his time and effort rushing to respond to a small American lobbying firm?
“The Nigerian Presidency is acting like a narco-state, using the levers of the state to protect its alleged drug-dealing President, Bola Tinubu, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, alleged was part of a criminal organisation that smuggled heroin from Nigeria into the United States during the 1980s and 1990s.
“We now see why the United States government views the Nigerian government as one of the most corrupt in the world. We are lobbyists and advocates. Our job is to build the case before the White House and Congress, increase U.S. public awareness, and keep members of Congress focused on the issue.
“President Tinubu and his enabling ministers are too incensed to realise that they walked into a trap. We believe the Nigerian government under President Tinubu is a narco state, and the US should ask: Why are South American drug traffickers flocking to Nigeria? Maybe the Minister of Aviation can help answer that question,” the firm tweeted.
