17th July, 2022
By Ghani Rotimi
So David Hundeyin has come with another one again like his Cornflakes of Jihad which elicited only 2 mins of orgasm by his army of followers and then evaporated when it was rebutted with cold hard truths.
This time, he claims to have found what the American Court, FBI and government of the United States could not find, which is evidence that Asiwaju was a drug lord. He did all that, I suspect, holed up in a dark corner of his room, from behind a laptop in Nigeria!!!
Education without intelligence is a cankerworm which is very pervasive today, so he and those who elevate his work do not surprise me.
However, I cannot help but notice that had he even done the basics, maybe he would have been spared the agony of writing his essay which turns out to be another beautiful nonsense.
So here are the facts:
1. When a case is brought to Court and judgment is given, the relevant document to look for is the Judgment and not the facts as stated by parties. Why? Those facts were tested against the evidence provided and only those that hold up will provide basis for the judgement. Others will be considered irrelevant.
2. Nowhere in the world was criminal proceedings instituted against Asiwaju for drug trafficking, drug peddling or drug financing or any other crime for that matter.
3. Note that when the Police has evidence that a person is a drug peddler, what they do is to bring criminal charges against him. This ends in conviction even where there is a plea bargin. Asiwaju was never convicted and has never been.
4. The case referred to by David in his fable is in respect of a Seizure Warrant executed by the Police in 1993 in respect of 1.4million dollars found in 2 accounts at Heritage and Citi Bank belonging to Asiwaju.
5. Everyone knows that when such happens, the affected person if guilty, flees and forfiets the amount seized since the loss may only be monetary.
6. Now Asiwaju could have runaway and simply avoided America subsequently, like Atiku Abubakar, once the Seizure Warrant was executed. To make matters easy, by 1992 Asiwaju had resigned from Mobil Oil Producing, run for Senate in Lagos West Senatorial District and won with the highest margin in the entire country .
7. Furthermore, in 1993, Asiwaju was neck deep in chasing his ambition to be Senate President and when MKO showed up on the scene, he stepped down for the current PDP chairman and focused his time on getting MKO elected as President.
8. But what was Asiwaju’s reaction to the action of the Police? He fought back. His lawyers filed papers challenging the basis for the Seizure Warrant and as you would see he essentially won at the end.
9. Ab initio, the reason the Police brought this action was because they had no direct evidence to prove Asiwaju was involved in drugs even after arresting his relative; one Akande. If they had such evidence they would have instead preferred criminal charges against him.
10. The sum of 1.2million dollars of the 1.4million dollars seized was found in an account used by Asiwaju to invest in shares, properties and the money market.
11. The entire case of the Police was that he could never own such an amount because his salary did not match.
12. Asiwaju argued that he earned 850,000 dollars as bonus from an assignment from Delloit (his employers) to set up the auditing process for a Joint Venture between National Oil and Saudi Aramco which till date is the biggest oil and gas company in the world!! While he was away, his salary was still being paid by Deloitte so after the project which lasted more than 8months, he came back to about a million in his account. This is very plausible considering how things work even today in the oil and gas space. So you see, the man go school well well and has the highest exposure!
13. Interestingly, the Police did not provide any evidence to counter this fact. Which means it was true.
14. Asiwaju insisted that once he started investing and making returns from the money market, he pushed his friends and mother who was very rich as Iyaloja of Lagos to also invest and they heeded his advise by sending money which formed part of what was in the account. This also was not controverted by the Police who had all resources to do so if he was lying.
15. The case in America became a distraction to his political ascendancy in Nigeria so he opted to settle and get it behind him.
16. Even then, in the Settlement deal, because the case of the Police against him was so weak, he walked away with about 1million dollars out of the 1.4million dollars in question.
16. All actions brought by the Police were dismissed!
17. Essentially, it was the Police that got lucky not Asiwaju because in today’s world it would be said he was bullied for being a black man with millions of dollars in his account. Moreso, the confession by his relative that he made some deposit to the said account would not hold water when the question of Mens Rea and Actus Reus on Asiwaju’s part are raised.
So there goes the tissues of lies marinated with ignorance by David Hundeyin. His 2 mins of fame is over and he officially replaces Oga Churchill as the 2mins man of Nigeria. He is not an investigative journalist at all because “gistlover” does a better job. I do not expect the Asiwaju campaign to join issues with such frivolities as it will give oxygen to David’s inanities.
I encourage all to go read the entire Court processes which have been published by Sahara Reporters. Even though Sahara mischievously gave it a flowery headline, ignore that and read the case of the Police, the case made out by Asiwaju’s lawyers and most importantly the decision of the Court which is the key! I know some will still not read so I have attached the Judgment here for ease of reference.
Remember this, Asiwaju fought and won!