FBI confirms Tinubu investigated over alleged drug trafficking

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was investigated implicit alleged drug-trafficking activities successful the aboriginal 1990s.

The confirmation was contained successful a sworn declaration filed by the FBI connected August 28, 2026, earlier the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The papers was submitted arsenic portion of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking entree to FBI records connected to Tinubu.

In the declaration, the FBI said, “the responsive records herein were compiled successful furtherance of the FBI’s probe of aggregate individuals for cause trafficking crimes.”

The bureau besides said, “the tribunal has already determined that an authoritative acknowledgement had been made of an probe of Bola Tinubu.”

The latest filing follows an April 2025 ruling by US District Judge Beryl Howell, who said the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) could nary longer usage “Glomar” responses to garbage to corroborate oregon contradict whether records astir Tinubu existed.

Howell ruled that the agencies had not provided capable privateness grounds to fell the information that Tinubu had been investigated.

She ordered the agencies to process records requested nether FOIA, but those protected by ineligible exemptions.

However, the ruling did not find that Tinubu committed a drug-trafficking offence o...