President Bola Tinubu is reportedly pushing fiercely to hold onto power for self-serving motives, chief among them being the shield of head-of-state immunity, a US-based advocacy group has claimed.
The firm Von Batten-Montague-York put forward the allegations through a statement released on its official social media channels following the Nigerian leader’s Independence Day address. The organization argued that this legal doctrine serves as a vital safeguard, protecting active leaders from the reach of foreign judicial systems while they occupy office.
The advocacy group went further to suggest that Tinubu’s continued presidency is the primary hurdle preventing an official review of past allegations. Specifically, they pointed to historical claims linking him to heroin trafficking operations routed from Nigeria into the United States during the 1980s and 1990s.
In their public commentary, representatives for the firm emphasized that the current head of state is fully cognizant of his precarious legal standing. They asserted that without his present executive status, the path would be clear for potential legal re-examinations and new criminal indictments regarding those decades-old narcotics allegations.
