The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, on Monday confirmed that Nigeria’s sitting President, Bola Tinubu, is its active asset.
This was revealed at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia as the CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum opposing a civil lawsuit requesting summary judgment and redactions in the Freedom of Information (FOIA) disclosure case about President Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records.
As contained in the filing, the intelligence agency [CIA] effectively confirmed President Tinubu as its active asset.
The FOIA case was initiated in 2022/2023, by David Hundeyin, in collaboration with PlainSite Founder Aaron Greenspan, is seeking to have the redactions (censoring) from the previously and partially released files.
With the CIA playing its card on the “We can neither confirm nor deny” tactics to protect President Tinubu, which it considered its asset, it opposed the redactions request, citing the exemption of privacy rights under the FOIA.
The DEA, an agency party to the suit, also included a paragraph in the filing indicating opposition to the redactions requested by the plaintiffs – Hundeyin and Greenspan.
We oppose full, unredacted disclosure of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu hęřøîn trafficking investigation records because we believe that while Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to,” the DEA statement reads.
As a now-confirmed CIA asset, President Tinubu poses as an asset that can be used to influence the political, social, or economic outcomes of Nigeria, a country once ranked West Africa’s biggest economy until recently ranked fourth in April 2024.
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