Bayo Onanuga, chief spokesman for President-elect Bola Tinubu, on Saturday argued that his principal’s cocaine racket in the United States happened more than 10 years ago and cannot, therefore, be used as a basis to truncate his victory at the polls last month.
“The Obidiots don’t read. They live in a cocoon of falsehood and contrived propaganda,” Mr Onanuga said while responding to a tweet from Ayo Obe, another surrogate of Mr Tinubu’s, who said the new Nigerian leader cannot be sacked by the Supreme Court because his established drug trafficking case in Chicago was already statute-barred.
Mrs Obe cited Section 137 (1)e) of the Constitution that said a Nigerian cannot be elected president within 10 years of a conviction for offences brought by the Code of Conduct Bureau.
A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if within a period of less than ten years before the date of the election to the office of President he has been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty or he has been found guilty of the contravention of the Code of Conduct,” the section said.
Mrs Obe, however, left out the preceding section of the Constitution, Section 137 (1)(d), that disqualified anyone who had been fined for any offences in the past from becoming president. That section, which applies to Mr Tinubu’s forfeiture of over $460,000 due to drug crimes in Chicago in 1993, did not give any timeline under which a convict can be released to run for Nigeria’s presidency.
It only said: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if he is under a sentence of death imposed by any competent court of law or tribunal in Nigeria or a sentence of imprisonment or fine for any offence involving dishonesty or fraud (by whatever name called) or for any other offence, imposed on him by any court or tribunal or substituted by a competent authority for any other sentence imposed on him by such a court or tribunal.”
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Posted: at 27-03-2023 06:17 AM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Kormeijama at 27-03-2023 06:36 AM (2 years ago) (m)
You the useless man, you all knew this man had had drug wahala but because you want to use him get what you can from the public you wheel-chaired him into the presidency, carry on boy
Posted: at 27-03-2023 06:36 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
alexidwayne at 27-03-2023 07:36 AM (2 years ago) (m)
Henceforth i won't be commenting on some post again cos the bastards don't read it and their supporters dat reads it wil be insulting u....wel bayo onanuga wil not live to see the end of dis year so says the lord.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 07:36 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Look at them fool call ipobs/ Igbos up thr lamenting and calling someone drug Barron. A well know tribe that majority of them can't do without drug pushing all over the world. This tribe call Igbo are just too shameless. If things don't fall to thr way, they won't cease to wail till eternity. You shall wail for another good 8 years and the power will return to the north.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 08:00 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
Ify_david at 27-03-2023 08:22 AM (2 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Ojex004 on 27-03-2023 08:00 AM
Look at them fool call ipobs/ Igbos up thr lamenting and calling someone drug Barron. A well know tribe that majority of them can't do without drug pushing all over the world. This tribe call Igbo are just too shameless. If things don't fall to thr way, they won't cease to wail till eternity. You shall wail for another good 8 years and the power will return to the north.
How is this an Igbo issue? You hatred for Igbos will definitely destroy you.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 08:22 AM (2 years ago) | Newbie
fineboy77 at 27-03-2023 09:20 AM (2 years ago) (m)
An illiterate saying that people don't read lol. I can see how people's fathers are shaming themselves in desperate efforts to gain favor. Favor to loot our commonwealth by shameless thief's.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 27-03-2023 09:20 AM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
all of una dey stupid...... this una USA can not do shit!!! MANDELA was accused of terrorism, usa ban him in fact the CIA wasted to kill him.... but when he became south africa president how come una USA NO ARREST AM? same with India Modi was banned from the USA before becoming president... u can't ban a foreign president!!!!
Posted: at 27-03-2023 12:31 PM (2 years ago) | Grande Master
Look at them fool call ipobs/ Igbos up thr lamenting and calling someone drug Barron. A well know tribe that majority of them can't do without drug pushing all over the world. This tribe call Igbo are just too shameless. If things don't fall to thr way, they won't cease to wail till eternity. You shall wail for another good 8 years and the power will return to the north.
,,, sometimes I wondered how old u are,,I continued to call u a toddler,, even a toddler reasons more than you,, continue challenging ur God,,igbos are more than you wether u like it or not,, wether president or no president igbos will still be on top of the game. In a decent society,Tinubu supposed to be in jail not a matter of tribal sentiments but a fact,,how can an ex drug convict coming to rule a country,,that is insanity.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 12:39 PM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
A case of crime is never statute barred anywhere in the whole wide world. Only civil cases may be statute barred and not criminal cases. Stop lying to people.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 03:02 PM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
Lie. Once a senator always a senator. A drug baron remains a drug baron. Can't rule over us. US is just waiting for Nigeria to swear him in
True. In the US there is what is called a Kingpin Act which was also used against former Nicaraguan drug lord and President. Sanctions can also be prescribed against any country having a for or present drug lord as president
Posted: at 27-03-2023 03:08 PM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
Someone in the USA recently secured a 70 page certified copy of the drug conviction of Mr Tinubu from the state of Illinois court and it has been trending online since Saturday. Guess Mr Onanuga has already heard about the document which contains damaging revelations about what actually transpired in that case, and he is already looking for a leeway for his principal.
Posted: at 27-03-2023 03:19 PM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
fineboy77 at 27-03-2023 04:54 PM (2 years ago) (m)
Quote from: pamarekb on 27-03-2023 03:19 PM
Someone in the USA recently secured a 70 page certified copy of the drug conviction of Mr Tinubu from the state of Illinois court and it has been trending online since Saturday. Guess Mr Onanuga has already heard about the document which contains damaging revelations about what actually transpired in that case, and he is already looking for a leeway for his principal.
Really? I suspected as much. I knew that once they sound this way, that they have been cornered and are looking for a way out.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 27-03-2023 04:54 PM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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