ChuksOkochainAbuja
As the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja awaits the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party to submit their final written addresses within 10 days, the PDP has said that the testimony of the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele was a validation of its claim that the $460,000 forfeited by President Bola Tinubu was connected to drugs racketeering.
The party said Opeyemi could not defend the figures declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as results of the 2023 presidential election in Kano State because he was not in the state and was also not at the collation centre on the day of the election.
Senator Bamidele had last Wednesday said as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Witness-in-Chief that President Tinubu did not face any criminal charges in a US court.
The lawmaker was the only witness called by the respondents in the hearing of the court in Abuja.
The Senate Majority Leader insisted that a forfeiture order against the president by an American court for $460,000 did not replace criminal charges because it related to a civil problem.
He also claimed that Tinubu was not found guilty and was not given any punishment.
ButthePDPinaposton its Whatsapp platform by the Publicity Secretary, yesterday stated that: “The testimony of Opeyemi Bamidele, one of the star witnesses of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, further confirms before the Presidential Election Petition Court that Bola Tinubu of the APC forfeited the sum of $460,000, which he earned from trafficking of drugs, narcotics in the United States of America (USA), and did not disclose same to INEC in his nomination forms.
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