Laolu Akande, a former presidential spokesman, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar are both weighed down by long-standing corruption allegations, arguing that neither politician can claim the moral high ground ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Akande said attempts by supporters of either camp to weaponise decades-old corruption allegations are unlikely to sway voters because the controversies surrounding both men have been extensively litigated and debated over the years.
“When you put Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku up against each other on the questions around corruption, I don’t think it’s going to be helpful to either of them because both of them have sufficient baggage,” he said.
Akande was reacting to renewed efforts by Atiku’s lobbyists to circulate documents relating to Tinubu’s decades-old U.S. civil forfeiture case, following the opposition’s recent lobbying campaign in Washington ahead of the
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