The accusation was made by investigative journalist David Hundeyin, who provided documents to support his allegations.
Hundeyin shared the claim on X, explaining that the revelation emerged after the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) filed a memorandum opposing a motion for summary judgment in a FOIA disclosure case concerning President Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records.
According to Hundeyin, the CIA’s filing effectively confirmed that “Nigeria’s sitting president is an active CIA asset.”
The claim has sparked widespread attention, causing “Tinubu is CIA” to trend on X/Twitter.
Reacting, Olusegun Dada rubbished the allegations against his principal.
He wrote on X: “They told you he was a lady. You believed. They told yorubas don’t bear Tinubu, You believed. They told you he can’t be allowed into the US. You believed. They told you his name is name is not is name. You believed. Now they brought another one. Here you are as usual. Tragic.”
This follows David Hundeyin’s claim that U.S. law enforcement agencies have asserted that Nigerians “have no right” to unrestricted access to President Bola Tinubu’s past records.
This position was outlined in a memorandum submitted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Hundeyin shared this memorandum on Twitter on the night of November 12.
It is important to note that last year, the court rejected an urgent request to force U.S. law enforcement agencies to expedite the release of confidential information regarding President Tinubu.
Providing an update on the case, Hundeyin revealed that the three U.S. agencies had filed their defense against the motion for summary judgment concerning records of Tinubu’s alleged drug trafficking investigation.
The journalist wrote: “Yesterday (Monday, Nov. 11) in federal court, the CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum opposing our motion for summary judgment in the FOIA disclosure case about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records, where we are seeking to have the redactions removed from the (partially released) files.
“In the filing, the CIA effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s sitting president is an active CIA asset. An excerpt from the CIA filing reads:
“Human sources can be expected to furnish information to the CIA only when they are confident the CIA can and will do everything in its power to prevent the public disclosure of their cooperation. In the case of a person who has been cooperating with the CIA, official confirmation of that cooperation could cause the targets to take retaliatory action against that person or against their family or friends.
“It also places in jeopardy every individual with whom the cooperating individual has had contact. Thus, the indiscretion of one source in a chain of intelligence sources can damage an entire spectrum of sources. As such, confirming or denying the existence of records on a particular foreign national, like Tinubu, reasonably could be expected to cause damage to U.S. national security by indicating whether or not the CIA maintained any human intelligence sources related to Tinubu, and identifying any access or lack of access any such sources had to intelligence concerning him.
“And if that wasn’t bad enough, the DEA’s filing included a paragraph that literally said: ‘We oppose full, unredacted disclosure of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records because we believe that while Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.’
“At this point, I think there is nothing more to be said about the direct role that the US government plays in ensuring that Africa is constantly destabilized and afflicted with terrible leaders who create poverty and devastation.”
