The court makes available certified copies of Bola Tinubu's drug-dealing and money-laundering records.

Bola Tinubu allegedly engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering, according to new records provided by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Swipe through some of the docs (but not all). Due to his involvement in a Chicago drug trafficking case in the early 1990s, Mr. Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress and a former governor of Lagos, has been the target of severe political and public criticism. Mr. Tinubu chose to talk about other aspects of his experience in corporate accounting, consulting, and pro-democracy advocacy instead of the narcotics scandal, which has been in the news since at least the middle of the 2000s. He did, however, state in his application to run for office with the INEC electoral office that he had never been convicted of a crime before.

The issue has also been completely downplayed by Mr. Tinubu's allies as a pointless diversion from Nigeria's democratic experience because it occurred decades ago in another language. Nigerians, meanwhile, have steadfastly demanded that the presidential hopeful reveal his role in the case, which resulted in his forfeiture of up to $460,000 to American authorities in 1993. The 56-page document, which was made public by the district court's Chicago headquarters, did not reveal any significant new information, but it did validate some things that had been mentioned in passing by the media for years. Following an article published in West Africa Weekly on July 13, journalist David Hundeyin rekindled interest in Mr. Tinubu's history of drug peddling.