No, President Bola Tinubu has not been convicted of any criminal offense.
The 1993 Chicago case was a civil asset forfeiture proceeding over bank accounts, resolved by settlement without criminal charges, indictment, or conviction. US records, including a 2003 official confirmation, show no criminal arrests or convictions for him. No other convictions appear in public records.
PRESS STATEMENT
SENATOR SERIAKE DICKSON’s ARISE NEWS TV INTERVIEW :
The Obidient Ninjas have taken note of the remarks made during @iamHSDickson H.E Senator Seriake Dickson’s recent Arise TV interview, where past political collaboration was framed in heavily personal terms. The emphasis on “I,” “me,” and “my” presented a one‑sided narrative that does not reflect the mutual nature of earlier political engagements involving multiple actors and constituencies.
In addition, the recent appointment of a communications figure known for adversarial comments toward H.E Peter Obi @PeterObi and the wider Obidient community has raised concerns about the party’s messaging direction. These decisions taken together, suggest a shift toward singular, personality‑driven communication laced with score-settling tendencies rather than inclusive, coalition‑oriented engagement.
Going forward, we believe the party would benefit from operating with mutual respect, particularly toward constituencies that have contributed significantly to national political discourse and to the party’s recent meteoric rise. Undermining a major support base of the party risks creating avoidable fractures at a time when unity and clarity are essential.
A more constructive approach would involve adopting language that reflects shared responsibility; “we,” “us,” and “our” while promoting the party’s vision for our country, centering the party’s ticket and presidential candidate, while fostering an environment where all stakeholders feel acknowledged rather than sidelined. This automatically strengthens internal cohesion and signals a positively formidable posturing to our detractors; while avoiding unnecessary salacious headlines.
We therefore recommend the party shifts its focus towards organizational readiness from PVC mobilization campaigns to grassroots outreaches, etc. It is time to get down to brass tacks. We are indeed one family now, this is a seminal moment and we have a monumental election to win.
Long live the NDC✌🏾
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
-A new Nigeria 🇳🇬 is ever more POssible.
Tudo Bams
For the Obidient Ninjas.
@obamoneygram@tudobams@iamHSDickson Leadership crisis. Peter Obi is not a leader, he's a follower by nature. If not, he would have his own political party. He's an intellectually lazy modafucker.
@rotex30@tudobams@iamHSDickson@EstherUmoh10@YunusaTanko The owner of the party said he doesn't want obidient this, obidient that, yet you are adamant. You wanted a ticket for your principal and you got it and still you want to become disobedient children? Which part of Party Supremacy do you not understand?? This isn't 2023 boy.
Peter Obi refused to pay newly approved minimum wage, yet he increased taxes and levies to further impoverished poor Anambra women. Poor women made to pay 9,600 on top of 12k minimum wage.
Exponential increase in revenue with excessive borrowing: Yet more hardship for Nigerians!
In celebrating three years of his administration, President Bola Tinubu included, among his achievements, an increase in revenue from N16.8 trillion in 2022 to N35 trillion in 2025. An increase of over 100%.
Shockingly, while Nigerians expected a reduction in borrowing with the exponential increase in revenue, the opposite is the case. In just three years, President Bola Tinubu’s government seems to be obsessed with excessive and imprudent borrowing, with our total debt currently about N200 trillion—a deeply disturbing increase of over N100 trillion.
In addition to the exponential increases in both revenue and debt, it is also important to note that Nigeria has earned far more than the budget revenue targets due to global and regional geoeconomic and political tensions.
Alarmingly, even with the astronomical increase in both revenue and debt, almost all key socio-economic and governance indicators are worse than in 2023. Multi-dimensional poverty has increased from 87 million people in 2023 to over 140 million people in 2025. Rapidly increasing unemployment and a decline in GDP per capita from $1,597 in 2023 to $1,223 in 2025, and the list goes on.
Just more and more hardship for Nigerians! The question Nigerians and even the international community are asking is, “Where did all the money go?”
Nigerians deserve a detailed and transparent explanation of what happened to our economy and financial resources since 2023, and a stop to the imprudent, unaccountable, and opaque management of our common patrimony.
A new and productive Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO
This is not suing. You sue when you file a court case and serve the defendant. This is just a threat of legal actions if the certain actions are not taken. Did I get it right @egi_nupe ?
@IkukuomaC Getting your lawyer to write a letter to someone demanding retracting under the threat of a legal action is not suing. The suing happens if obi files complaint in a valid court and serves the defendant. But something tells me obi won't follow through. You guys are gullible.
This is proof that the "Yes Daddy" recording where peter obi said our election is a religious war is true. Simply because peter obi threatened to sue people's gadget but he didn't.
I support Tinubu because I want Nigeria to experience
✅ Creation of State Police and elimination of insecurity.
✅ N200k minimum wage
✅ Completion of legacy roads, rail and port projects all over the country.
✅ Nigeria regain its position as the Giant of Africa.
✅ Millions of tertiary students benefit from NELFUND
✅ S&P rating go from B to A
✅ Annual 8% GDP growth
✅ Each state boasting of at least 500 MW self generated electricity.
✅ See our productive and manufacturing sector come alive.
Only Tinubu has shown capacity to make these happen. None of his opponents have a track record worthy of voting for.
2. From my findings, Chief Obodo G., who is widely known to be the personal legal adviser to PO, was appointed Chairman of the Appeal Panel. While I have nothing personal against him, the circumstances raise legitimate questions about independence, transparency and public confidence in the process. The party's assertion that appeals were heard and recommendations made before the publication of primary election results speaks volumes about the credibility challenges confronting the entire exercise.
If indeed appeals have been concluded before results were released, then one is left to wonder: what exactly was appealed against, by whom, and on the basis of what officially declared outcome?
Even more disturbing is the fact that the same statement signed by the National Secretary appeared to shift responsibility for the Anambra situation to PO. I have read the statement several times and remain unable to understand how a political party can conduct primaries, refuse to publish results, claim to have completed appeals, produce a controversial list of candidates, and then seek to place responsibility elsewhere.
My concern goes beyond my personal aspiration. I am also struggling to understand the pathway to national victory for a party whose key leadership positions are concentrated within the same broad geographical region. The National Leader is from Bayelsa State in the South-South. The National Chairman is from the South. The National Secretary is from Anambra South Senatorial Zone, the same zone as the presidential candidate. In a country as diverse as Nigeria, such an arrangement raises legitimate questions about inclusiveness, balance and national appeal.
Perhaps the greatest challenge now is how to explain to our brothers and sisters across the South-East that your friend may not truly be running for President at all.
A man genuinely seeking the presidency of a diverse nation ought to be building transparent democratic structures, inspiring confidence amongst party members, expanding his support base across regions, and ensuring that internal party processes reflect the values he publicly preaches.
What we are witnessing instead is a situation where aspirants are left confused, primary results remain unpublished, appeals are allegedly concluded before results are released, and candidate lists are said to have emerged from private meetings unknown to those who participated in the process.
The unavoidable question is this: if a political project cannot guarantee internal democracy for its own members, is its real objective winning the presidency, or merely negotiating relevance ahead of the general election?
That is the question many of us are now struggling to answer.
For me, the greatest disappointment is not losing a ticket. Politics is about contest, and one can lose honourably. My disappointment is that I invested my time, resources and reputation in a process that increasingly appears opaque and inconsistent with the democratic principles it publicly proclaimed.
Ike gwụrụ.
I am a victim of a scam.
Obunike Ohaegbu
(Nwa Miss)
Tinubu is calm.
He's rarely distracted by noise.
Even when many of his supporters (excluding me certainly) begin to waiver and doubt his ability to weather the storm, he is always calm and works from behind the scenes to regain control of situations.
I don't second guess Tinubu, not because he is perfect or a god or infallible. I have an unexplainable confidence in his ability to outfox his transducers.
People tend to envy and hate people who are smarter than them. Many (in the political class) who hate Tinubu actually want to be like him but they don't have the strategy or the patience to follow a strategy or restraint.
To all Tinubu supporters, I have this few words of advice for you:
By now you should have developed thick skin having gone through the 2023 baptism of fire. No opposition strategy should be new to you again.
Ignore insults or curses if you can (they are meaningless), try to draw your opponents to discuss issues and you'll be shocked how they run away because beyond anger and hatred, many of them are actually empty and cannot discuss on issues. Their line no dey pass "get your PVC".
Nigeria is passing through a difficult phase and there is no single easy way out. If you watch, they have not told you that their candidate will return fuel subsidy or will be paying all Nigerians monthly allawee or that they will scrap all the reforms initiated by President Bola Tinubu in just three years. What does that tell you?
They don't have alternatives for the reforms! So, they want to amplify our insecurity challenges and try to downplay every other strides of the Tinubu administration in infrastructure, monetary and fiscal reforms, education, trade, oil and gas, restructuring etc.
But be calm, the President is not folding his hands, as C-in-C of our great armed forces, he is working to break the back of criminal networks and in the last few weeks, our military and even the police are recording massive successes and criminals are also feeling the heat.
Trust the process....
As an individual, I'm more interested in who Tinubu is going to hand over in 2031 because as far as I am concerned, 2027 is a done deal once there is life.
South East Development Commission was established in July 2024, SEDC’s board was inaugurated in February 2025. By 2026, they have mismanaged 16 billion Naira.
Meanwhile their kinsmen are asking what Tinubu has done.