A United States-based policy advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has said there will be no cover-up over allegations of drug trafficking involving President Bola Tinubu.
The firm made the statement in a post on X on Tuesday while commenting on the ongoing legal battle over the release of US records relating to the allegations.
It accused the administration of former US President Joe Biden of resisting the release of Freedom of Information Act records concerning the allegations against Tinubu.
The firm, however, said the US Department of Justice under President Donald Trump would not protect anyone allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
It alleged that the Biden administration’s DOJ pursued Trump while simultaneously fighting the release of records concerning Tinubu, whom it described as having been accused in federal records of involvement in heroin trafficking.
The firm also praised Trump, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, members of the Trump administration and lawmakers in Congress whom it said had refused to continue the approach of the previous administration.
“Unlike President Joe Biden’s DOJ, which fought the release of FOIA records concerning Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, the DOJ under President Donald Trump will never protect an alleged drug trafficker linked to the smuggling of heroin from Nigeria through Illinois to Indiana,” the firm said.
The allegations remain disputed, and the claims made by the firm do not by themselves establish that Tinubu committed any offence.
The development comes after US District Judge Beryl Howell on Tuesday gave Trump-appointed US Attorney Jeanine Pirro an additional four days to release records relating to the allegations involving Tinubu.
The court order followed an earlier legal push for the release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
