Pablo Escobar once famously planned to become Colombia's president during his time as South America's most notorious drug trafficker. While he eventually failed, the narco trafficker's ultimate dream of taking over the leadership of an entire country could be coming to fruition over 30 years later in Africa's most populous country.
From Nigeria's Osun State to Chicago, USA, via a stopover in Gary, Indiana, and back to Lagos in Nigeria, this is the story of how the bagman for a 1990's Chicago drug ring has become a frontrunner for Nigeria's most powerful office. This documentary is based on 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord to Presidential Candidate', a long-read investigation published on West Africa Weekly in July 2022 by independent journalist David Hundeyin
The leadership of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, said it was considering legal options to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enforce the ruling of a United States court in Illinois, Chicago, indicting the All-Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, of drug-related offenses.
*Says Section 137 of the constitution makes APC candidates ineligible
The report detailed how Atiku as Vice President of Nigeria used offshore companies to siphon millions of dollars between 2000 and 2008 to his fourth wife in the United States, Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas Abubakar.
This link to Atiku's Scandal
All the above stories bring back a wild question:
Are There No Better Candidate?
All this party has failed our dear country Nigeria.
Please Nigerians VOTE WISELY!
Video editing by Olisa and Seyi
Storyboard, script and voicing by David Hundeyin
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