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Tinubu political-legal and governance challenges

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Since late July 2026 President Bola Tinubu’s administration has been beset by faced a widening cascade of legal, security and governance pressures. A US‑based Washington‑based Republican lobbying firm urged firm, Von Batten‑Montague‑York, L.C., began pressuring U.S. authorities to consider indicting Tinubu over alleged 1990s heroin trafficking, citing a $460,000 bank‑account seizure in Chicago and thanking Rep. Chris Smith after a House subcommittee hearing. The firm contrasted Tinubu with former Vice‑President Atiku Abubakar. In Nigeria, the Federal High Court in Abuja opened a trial of dozens of serving and retired officers, police, businessmen and civilians accused of plotting a failed 2025 coup plot, naming coup. Evidence outlines plans to seize the Presidential Villa (Aso Rock), Radio House, airports and other key sites, with Colonel Mohammed Ma’aji identified as a key organiser. principal mastermind. Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal has repeatedly alleged continued to allege that Tinubu paid millions “millions of dollars” to northern governors to secure the 2023 APC primary, primary and personally financed large portions of the party’s 2015 campaign—including campaign, including private jets and American consultants— and that his U.S. consultants costing over two billion naira. Lawal also claimed Tinubu’s health has deteriorated, noting a diet of bananas and groundnuts and the use of “silk” cigarettes. Lawal also claimed cigarettes, and said the late President Muhammadu Buhari harboured reservations about Tinubu’s background. Civil‑society groups have intensified calls for investigations. The Ondo State Concerned Youth for Good Governance petitioned the EFCC on 31 July 2026 to probe Speaker Olamide Oladiji, Deputy Speaker Ololade Gbegudu and Clerk Benjamin Jayeola of the Ondo State House over alleged diversion of Assembly for allegedly forging a resolution that diverted N70 billion from the 2025 OSOPADEC budget. Separately, On 1 August 2026 the Socio‑Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) sent a letter on 1 August 2026 to President Tinubu, citing the Auditor‑General’s 2025 report that documented misappropriation Tinubu demanding a probe of more than N6.79 ₦6.79 billion misappropriated within the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs, including payments for non‑existent citing phantom projects, inflated contracts, unretired cash advances, and the disappearance of 42 missing firearms (42) and 737 live rounds. SERAP demanded a seven‑day deadline for the Attorney‑General, the Minister of Justice, the Inspector‑General of Police ammunition (737 rounds), and anti‑corruption agencies giving the government seven days to launch a full probe and prosecute those responsible. act.

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