It was an issue Tinubu’s team thought was dead and buried having happened some 30 years ago. But it has now resurfaced and dominated the social media space for the last 48 hours in Africa’s largest democracy.
Between the late 80s and the early 90s, Tinubu came under investigation after funds suspected to be proceeds of drug trafficking were traced to his bank accounts.
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