September 4, 2026
Greetings!
Harry Agina here to explain Nigeria’s President Tinubu’s CRIME- SUSPICION case in the USA to Nigerians who do not understand the American criminal judicial system. If you know my open hatred of President Tinubu’s corrupt rulership, then you must know that whatever positive information or opinion I offer about him is ABSOLUTE FACT based on my OBJECTIVITY-CUM-SINCERITY principle of integrity.
No political filters…No fear…No favors…No Bullshitting!!!
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
(1) CLAIM: As shown in the captioned news picture below, President Tinubu, through his presidency, claims that the current case in a USA court concerning him is a civil case, and not a criminal case.
(2) FACT 1: Yes, it is true that the current case about Tinubu in a US court is a CIVIL case about FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. It seeks the public right to make Tinubu’s FBI/DEA file public. It is to force FBI to release Tinubu’s POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT in drug-traficking in Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1990s, which ended on October 4, 1993. The case file number is 1:93-cv-04483, also referred to as file number 93C4483.
(2) FACT 2: President Tinubu DEFINITELY forfeited 460,000 US dollars to the American government in 1993. However, it was under CIVIL CASE. It was not a criminal case because he was NEVER actually CHARGED, TRIED, nor CONVICTED. Why? Because he was only SUSPECTED of being involved in drug-traficking and money laundering, without enough evidence to charge him to court for trial.
QUESTIONS ARISING:
(1) So, why did President Tinubu forfeit (give up) USD460,000. He was SUSPECTED by American government to be involved in drug-traficking. He had large funds in bank accounts whose sources were not easy to defend. However, the US FBI could not easily establish that the funds were from drug-traficking either. So, the FBI kicked in the usual USA JUDICIAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCY principle. This means that, rather than spend resources pursuing a criminal drug-traficking case against Bola Tinubu without enough clear evidence, the FBI pressured him to forfeit $460,000 from his suspicious funds. On his part, Tinubu, POSSIBLY because he knew that it would be difficult for him to prove legitimate source of his suspicious funds, accepted to forfeit 460,000U$D. The deal was sealed under CIVIL trial because the FBI had not charged Tinubu on CRIMINAL level of trial due to lack of clear evidence.
(2) Having stated all the above facts, there is still a PERTINENT question by Nigerians and the world at large, thus: Why is President Tinubu doing everything possible, including spending millions of dollars, to ensure that the full records of his trial in Chicago are kept top secret? It is said that a clear conscience fears no accusation. So, if President Tinubu has no evil act to hide, why is he fighting tooth-and-nail to keep his FBI record so secret? Mind you, any propagandist who says it is not the business of Nigerians to find out what Tinubu is trying to keep secret is a HUGE FOOL, to say the least. Tinubu is a public figure. If he believes that Nigerians have no right to know EVERTHING about his character, then he HAS NO RIGHT to be our president, meeeeeeeen!!!
USA CRIMINAL PLEA-BARGAIN FORFEITURE VERSUS CIVIL TRIAL FORFEITURE:
Let’s take my analysis above to another level. This is necessary to inform Nigerians who believe that Tinubu’s forfeiture of 460,000U$D in Chicago automatically made him a criminal in the trial.
WHAT IS A PLEA BARGAIN IN USA:
A plea bargain is an agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant where the defendant pleads GUILTY or NO CONTEST in a CRIMINAL (not civil) case, in exchange for a lighter sentence or reduced charges. The defendant gives up his/her right to a trial because he/she knows that he/she is MOST LIKELY to lose because of the available evidence. The defendant agrees to PLEAD GUILTY to specific criminal counts. In return, the prosecutor offers a concession of lower sentence. A judge must approve the final agreement with the discretion to make adjustments.
PLEA BARGAIN FORFEITURE:
A plea bargain with forfeiture of funds or property is an agreement where a CRIMINAL defendant PLEADS GUILTY in exchange for lighter charges or a reduced sentence, while also voluntarily giving up ownership of money or property linked to the crime. In writing, they admit the factual basis connecting their funds or assets to illegal acts.
Note that the word “criminal” and the phrase “pleads guilty” are highlighted above. Why? Because they make the difference in President Tinubu’s Chicago drug-traficking case. His case was a CIVIL case because FBI didn’t find enough evidence to charge him for criminal trial. So, he didn’t have to plead guilty because it was not escalated to a trial.
WHY US GOVERNMENT USES PLEA BARGAIN AND FORFEITURE:
(1) The idea is to save the US government the trouble and expences of going through the entire trial. So, it is about RESOURCE EFFICIENCY. It avoids long, costly trials and locks in a conviction.
(2) Asset Recovery: It swiftly strips criminals of ill-gotten gains without the separate burden of proving civil asset forfeiture cases from scratch. It is on record that OVER 90 PERCENT of all criminal cases in the US are settled through plea bargain.