Several United States government agencies are scheduled to release long-awaited investigation reports on Friday, May 2, concerning the decades-old alleged drug-related case involving Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
This development comes after a directive issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, instructing the involved agencies — with the exception of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — to file a joint status report and provide relevant documents by the set deadline.
Among the agencies expected to comply are the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the CIA.
The order was issued by Judge Beryl Howell, who ruled in favour of public disclosure following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in June 2023 by American transparency advocate Aaron Greenspan. Howell declared that the ongoing decision to withhold the documents was “neither logical nor plausible.”
Greenspan had previously submitted a total of 12 FOIA requests between 2022 and 2023, targeting six different U.S. agencies in pursuit of records from a joint federal investigation. The case reportedly involves President Tinubu and three other individuals — Lee Andrew Edwards, Mueez Abegboyega Akande, and Abiodun Agbele — allegedly linked to a drug trafficking network.
