The Presidency on Thursday fired back at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over reports that his lobbying group in the United States had submitted petitions to President Donald Trump and the US State Department regarding a 1993 civil forfeiture case against President Bola Tinubu.
It described the move as an affront to Nigeria’s sovereignty, citing Atiku’s own legal exposure in the United States.
In a statement signed Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Presidency said the 1993 case had been resolved more than 30 years ago with no criminal conviction or finding of guilt, adding that reviving it through paid foreign lobbyists was “an attempt to externalise domestic politics and undermine Nigeria’s sovereignty.”
Onanuga wrote, “It is baffling and disappointing that someone who has sought the presidency for over three decades now resorts to reporting the President of Nigeria to US
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