The leaving masquerade

Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation (@fkeyamo) claims that our fight for the release of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s (@officialABAT) alleged heroin-trafficking records is a “storm in a teacup; journey to nowhere.” The world should then ask a simple question: Why then is a cabinet-level Nigerian Minister spending his time and effort rushing to respond to a small American lobbying firm? The Nigerian Presidency is acting like a narco state, using the levers of the state to protect its alleged drug-dealing President, Bola #Tinubu, whom the @FBI alleges was part of a criminal organization that smuggled heroin from Nigeria into the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. “Senior Nigerian Government Officials Rushing to Protect Their Alleged Drug-Trafficker President” is the title of our next briefing to the @realDonaldTrump Admin and Congress. We now see why the United States government views the Nigerian government as one of the most corrupt in the world. We are lobbyists and advocates. Our job is to build the case before the White House and Congress, increase U.S. public awareness, and keep members of Congress focused on the issue. President #Tinubu and his enabling ministers are too incensed to realize that they walked into a trap. We believe the Nigerian government under President #Tinubu is a narco state, and the U.S. should ask: Why are South American drug traffickers flocking to Nigeria? Maybe the Minister of Aviation can help answer that question. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @SusieWiles47 @StateDept @statedeptspox @TheJusticeDept @FBI @FBIDirectorKash @DEAHQ @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @SenateForeign @SenTedCruz @RepBrianMast @RepGregSteube @Jim_Jordan @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP @ChuckGrassley @SenatorDurbin

Today, our proposed amicus curiae filing was formally received by the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Greenspan v. Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys et al. We ask the Court for permission to present an additional perspective on Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s (@officialABAT) asserted privacy interests and the Nigerian Presidency’s extraordinary decision to issue an official Statehouse Statement publicly discussing the very FBI and DEA records President #Tinubu is asking a U.S. federal court to protect. Our position is simple: you cannot have it both ways. You cannot invoke privacy before a United States federal court while using the power of the Nigerian Presidency to publicly characterize those same investigative records and tell the world what they supposedly contain. We are asking the Court to consider the Presidency’s own public actions when weighing President #Tinubu’s asserted privacy interests against the public’s legitimate interest in understanding what the @FBI, @DEAHQ, and @TheJusticeDept did in connection with these drug-trafficking investigative records. We fully expect President Bola #Tinubu and the other parties to challenge this filing for one reason or another. That is entirely expected. Our primary objective is to ensure that the Court is made aware of the Nigerian Presidency’s public statement and our argument that it potentially weakens President Tinubu’s asserted claim of privacy. If the Court permits our amicus brief to be formally docketed and considered, we will welcome that decision. Regardless of the outcome of our motion, we have placed this significant development before the Court so that it can be considered, if the Court deems appropriate, when ruling on the issues before it. @RepGregSteube @RepJames @Jim_Jordan @RepRaskin @FBIDirectorKash @ChuckGrassley @SenatorDurbin @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP @USAttyPirro @TheJusticeDept @FBI @DEAHQ @FoxNews @washingtonpost @joerogan @joeroganhq @seanhannity @IngrahamAngle @chicagotribune @nypost @nytimes