Chief Mueez Akande,72, a long time associate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and brother in-law to Tinubu’s wife, Oluremi Tinubu, has died under mysterious circumstances. Akande was recently mentioned in Tinubu’s alleged drug case in Chicago, United States of America.
Akande’s death is coming at a time the certified true copy of a settlement judgement ordering Tinubu to forfeit $460,000 drug money under the narcotic section of the US criminal code is causing controversy all over the country.
The Certified True Copy of the court documents, which included the judgement delivered by Magistrate John Nordberg of a United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, was dated August 10, 2022, and signed by Thomas Bruton and Johnny Khuu, both Clerk and Deputy Clerk, respectively, of US District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
The documents revealed how Tinubu and his associates were involved in the distribution of heroin and money laundering between 1988 and 1992.
In a Verified Complaint for Forfeiture of funds in several accounts linked to Tinubu in First Heritage Bank and Citibank in the US, a United States Attorney, Michael Shepard, had narrated how Tinubu opened about 10 accounts in the name of Bola Tinubu and Compass Finance and Investment Limited in late December 1989 and January 1990, wherein he deposited funds far in excess of his earnings in Mobil Oil, where he was working at the time.
Shepard noted that the funds in Tinubu’s accounts were suspected to represent proceeds of drugs or property involved in money laundering, hence the initiation of a warrant of seizure and monition was requested from the court.
David Hundeyin, the investigative journalist who unravelled all of these expressed disappointment that Akande died three days after the exposure and at a time when he, Akande, was trying to do a tell all in his involvement with Bola Tinubu in white heroin trafficking.