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A disagreement ensued between former Kaduna Central senator Shehu Sani and Paul Ibe, media adviser to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday over the opposition’s decision to hire a United States lobbying firm to push for the release of documents relating to President Bola Tinubu’s alleged drug trafficking case, with both men disagreeing on the implications of the move for Nigeria.
The exchange followed reports that Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington-based lobbying firm engaged by Atiku, had begun distributing United States Department of Justice records on alleged drug trafficking involving Tinubu to officials in the Donald Trump administration, members of Congress and senior congressional aides.
Reacting on his X account on Wednesday, Sani criticised the move, describing it as unpatriotic and capable of damaging Nigeria’s international standing.
“Engaging US lobby groups to criminalise the President and his administration and curry favour from the US Government is unconscionable and unpatriotic,” he
