Alleged drug trafficking: Tinubu forged US Embassy letter – Lobbying firm alleges

A US-based lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has accused Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and his associates of forging a letter from the US Embassy that praised him for combating insecurity. The alleged forgery was highlighted in a statement posted by the firm on its verified X account on Wednesday. The letter in question was reportedly circulated by Nigeria's ambassador to Mexico, Reno Omokri, to support Tinubu against allegations regarding his US records.

The lobbying firm raised concerns about the document's authenticity, citing numerous spelling, grammatical, and formatting errors in the purported official correspondence. Some of the identified errors included "czheck" instead of "check," "maitatins" instead of "maintains," "it’s territories" instead of "its territories," and "the result of the checks were negative" instead of "the result of the check was negative."

The firm argued that these errors made it difficult to accept the document as a genuine communication from a US government institution without independent verification. The issue arose amid heightened interest in Tinubu's past in the United States following a legal dispute over the release of records held by US federal agencies.

Reno Omokri had previously argued that FBI records related to Tinubu should not be automatically considered criminal, distinguishing between ordinary FBI records and criminal ones. Omokri also referenced a purported letter from the FBI via the US Embassy in Lagos to the Nigerian government. In response, the US-based lobbying firm questioned the credibility of the purported communication and called for independent verification before accepting it as an authentic US government document.

They warned that presenting a fabricated document as an official communication from the US government could potentially lead to serious legal consequences under US law.