Deloitte A US Company Denies Ever Employing Tinubu

Deloitte, a United States company, has stated that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, never worked with the firm at any time let alone pay him $1.8million as salaries and bonuses.

iexclusivenews reports that Deloitte’s response was contained in a response to a subpoena ordering it to provide Tinubu’s bonus history with the organization,.

With the comment becoming the latest controversy surrounding Tinubu’s links with drugs trafficking and court cases in the United States in the 1990s.

Tish Negron, Senior Legal Specialist, signed the company’s response, which was quoted in a report by investigative journalist David Hundeyin and published in West African Weekly.

“Bola Ahmed Tinubu has claimed that he made $1.8 million from salaries and bonuses while working a consultancy job at Deloitte USA.”

“So we subpoenaed Deloitte USA to provide evidence of Tinubu’s employment and staff payment records, and this is what came back,” Hundeyin posted on Monday.

The letter from Deloitte, dated September 20, 2022, partly read, “Dear Mr Kowals, we received a subpoena 16 September 2022, seeking employment records for Bola Tinubu, SSN….

“Please be advised that we have no record of Bola Tinubu in our systems, and as such have no employment records for them.”

iexclusivenews Nigeria had reported how certified judgment documents released by the Chicago, US court, indicted Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The certified US court judgment documents had surfaced, revealing that the former Lagos State governor was indicted by a US District Court for drug dealing and money laundering.

According to the certified court documents, Tinubu was a drug lord who voluntarily agreed to forfeit his assets to American authorities in 1993 rather than face trial.

In response to the documents’ circulation, the APC presidential campaign’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, described the documents as a “campaign of calumny,” adding that the “Muckrakers are back in business.”

What You Should Know About Tinubu

However, iexclusivenews Nigeria reports that the West Africa Weekly report stated that, “A US District Court would seem like an odd place to begin this story, but this is no ordinary story.

The main character in this story is an individual whose entire existence is as puzzlingly mysterious as it is loud and public.

For at least 30 years, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been at or near the grinding face of frontline politics in Nigeria, yet a peek one inch below the surface reveals how little is actually known about the man who some say is Nigeria’s president-in-waiting.

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“First of all, there is the age controversy. How old is the man really? What is his real date of birth? Short answer, no one actually knows.

“Like many Nigerians born into the less-than-auspicious circumstances that characterised his childhood in Iragbiji, Osun State, he himself may not even know. Similar controversy exists around what his actual name is.

“A popular theory is that “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” is an identity that he transitioned into at some point after moving to Lagos to live with his surrogate mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji.

“At the time when Tinubu informed the US authorities that he was a lowly treasurer at Mobil on $2,400 a month after having apparently been the world’s most generously remunerated junior Deloitte accountant, he was doing some decidedly non-lowly things in the background.

“While working on this story, a bit of research across US land registries threw up a few pearlers like this from the Land Records Department at Prince George’s County, Maryland.

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“Was the 1993 election annulled because of MKO Abiola’s alleged drug ties? Bola Tinubu for one, would certainly hope not.

“Not only does he have very real and proven drug ties in addition to explicitly positioning himself as the assumed successor to MKO as the political leader of Nigeria’s Yoruba ethnic group, but he has also picked a Muslim running mate ahead of next year’s elections.

“The only other electoral frontrunner in Nigeria’s history to do that was – no prizes for guessing.

“Still, if anybody can manage to avoid having this particular bolt of lightning strike twice, it could well be Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the luckiest politician in Africa.

“When he needed money to launch a political career in the 90s after all, he apparently had $1.8 million saved up from bonuses and salary payments as a junior accountant at Deloitte. Very handy.

“When his chosen successor faced a near-certain electoral defeat in 2007, the more popular frontrunner coincidentally turned up dead inside his bedroom in Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi – one of the safest neighbourhoods in Nigeria. He had been strangled to death. Naturally, the chosen successor then won the election. Happy coincidence.”