…10 accounts linked to Tinubu in US, $460,000 deducted as tax
The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, says the presidential candidate of the party,Bola Tinubu was never involved in drugs neither was he indicted for money laundering as being speculated by his opponents, PDP.
This was the spokesman also disclosed that authorities of the United State, US, government linked 10 bank accounts to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu in the early 90s.
Keyamo said the United States Government had deducted $460,000 from one of the accounts as tax on investments domiciled in those banks.
He disclosed this while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday.
Keyamo was reacting to the controversial document that was allegedly released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said to have investigated Tinubu’s alleged involvement in drugs and money laundering in 90s.
Speaking on the issue, Keyamo said the APC presidential candidate was responsible for the accounts, but some were traced to his mother and “relatives.”
He explained that Tinubu deposited some funds in bank accounts in the US as investments and got returns on those investments.
He added that, the banks were supposed to deduct taxes from the investments but they did not and this was not a deliberate act on the part of Tinubu
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“The deposits he made in banks are what bankers termed as investments; he kept the money there and he was getting interests.The US government said he had not paid tax on those interests. That is all and guess what? The banks are supposed to deduct the tax from source,”he said
“Out of the 10 accounts, it was only one account
the one in Heritage Bank that they took $460,000 as tax on interest that he benefited from the investment he made in those accounts.
“In fact, all the money in Heritage Bank was not taken; they took only $460,000 as tax,”the Minister of State, Labour and Employment said
Keyamo further stressed that,Tibubu was roped in the drug trafficking case of two Nigerians who once stayed in separate flats where the ex-governor stayed at a time in the US.
“He(Asiwaju) went to open an account,the address by which he opened the account was already used by these people investigated for narcotics,” he said
He said Tinubu was an employee of Mobil Oil and not a treasurer of a drug cartel as being speculated by his opponents
Keyamo insisted that there was no criminal indictment or conviction against Tibubu,alleging that the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, was behind the resurface of the said controversial court document.
“His detractors kept bringing up these issues over and over again when his political profile is rising. When he wants to run for office or any political turn in his life,they will bring up these issues,”Keyamo said
Keyamo stressed that, those documents flying around carrying 2022 date are meant to convince people adding that if documents are 40 years old or 100 years old, once you go to court,and apply for certified true copies of those documents,they will give you those documents as requested but with a stamp carrying the day they are releasing those documents to you.
“The date on the papers flying up and down,the date of certification is 2022. So,they are using this to confuse people that these are fresh papers,” he said
“This is what our detractors,the PDP, perhaps that is what they went to the Us for when they pretended that they went for high-level engagement. This is part of the high-level engagement they went for,”he alleged