A United States-based political advisory and lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has indicated that it may present video material as part of the ongoing controversy surrounding records connected to alleged drug trafficking claims involving President Bola Tinubu.
The firm made the disclosure in a post published on its verified X account on Monday, saying it was taking steps to amend documents already submitted to a United States court.
According to the organisation, the proposed evidence centres on comments allegedly made by Adewale Tinubu, described as President Tinubu’s reported nephew, during an All Progressives Congress, APC, political event.
Von Batten-Montague-York argued that the video could raise further questions about the President’s request for privacy protections over records held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, relating to his alleged past.
“We are amending our Supplemental Notice of Evidentiary Exhibits to the US court to include the attached video transcript. The video is really extraordinary.
“At an All Progressives Congress, APC, political event, Mr Adewale Tinubu, President Tinubu’s reported nephew, said, ‘I did that case in Chicago. It was one of my first legal matters,’ and described personally urging Tinubu to settle.
“Yet the official court record identifies Patrick S. Coffey, Esq. as the attorney representing President Tinubu in that case. No court appearance, pleading, signature, or other filing identifies Mr Adewale Tinubu as counsel in the proceeding. Not a single record.
“Why does this matter? First, court records show that Mr Adewale Tinubu’s account is false. Second, the video shows, in real time, the falsification of established facts to deceive the Nigerian public. Facts President Tinubu now claims are private. Third, President Tinubu is asking the court to protect his alleged heroin-trafficking records from the public. Yet his own nephew publicly discussed the Chicago proceeding at a political campaign event while Tinubu was present.
“President Tinubu cannot have it both ways. US courts have long recognized that voluntary public disclosure can diminish the privacy interest that Exemption 7(C) protects. The FBI and DEA must come to the realization that President Tinubu is a liability and that his alleged drug-trafficking records are just another Epstein file.
“Whether under the current Republican administration or a future Democrat administration, those files will eventually be released to the public,” the firm tweeted.
The development represents a fresh turn in the legal and political dispute over the release of US law-enforcement records linked to allegations involving the Nigerian President.
Von Batten-Montague-York maintained that the public comments referenced in the video could be relevant to arguments surrounding whether privacy exemptions should continue to shield the FBI and DEA documents from public disclosure.
The firm’s claims and interpretation of the court records form part of an ongoing dispute, while the question of whether the requested law-enforcement documents will ultimately be released remains subject to the outcome of the legal process.
