By Kio Amachree
The comments on my page tell a story that no government spokesperson can spin away. Shock. Anger. And finally, understanding — the devastating realisation among ordinary Nigerians of why they are suffering. Not from bad luck. Not from global headwinds. But from deliberate, calculated, systematic plunder conducted from the highest office in the land. Bola Tinubu came to Nigeria not to govern. He came to loot.
Nigeria,under Tinubu, recorded the largest increase in acute food insecurity globally in 2024, with 31.8 million Nigerians facing high levels of acute hunger — a figure so obscene it should constitute a crime against humanity. Over 93.7 million Nigerians are projected to be living in extreme poverty in 2025, surviving on no more than two dollars a day.
Meanwhile, the GDP growth figures the presidency celebrates with such shameless pride have not translated into improved living standards — economic growth without prosperity, as poverty remains endemic and the cost of living crushes millions who cannot afford to eat. This is not economic mismanagement. This is engineered despair. But we must go further.
Because the question I have been asking — and which my sources in Washington have helped me answer — is this: Who does Bola Tinubu truly serve? A Traitor in Aso Rock The CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum in U.S. federal court opposing the motion to disclose unredacted records related to Tinubu, with the CIA’s own filing hinting that he functions as an active intelligence asset — and that exposing the nature of his cooperation could compromise U.S. national security interests. Read that again.
The president of Africa’s most populous nation — a man presiding over the suffering of over 200 million people — is being shielded from accountability by American intelligence agencies citing their own operational interests. The DEA went further, effectively telling the court 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.
This is the colonial arrangement in its 21st century form. A puppet enthroned his files locked away in Langley, his crimes laundered through the respectability of elected office. It has been three years since Aaron Greenspan filed FOIA requests to six federal agencies seeking records related to the 1990s narcotics investigation in Chicago in which Tinubu was implicated. What followed was a masterclass in institutional obstruction — the FBI promising completion by August 2025, then September, then December, then January 2026, then February 2026, producing zero documents at each stage.
Judge Beryl Howell, the federal judge overseeing the case, has now issued a final ultimatum ordering full processing and production of records by June 1, 2026, with joint status reports every 14 days. That June 1 deadline is not merely a legal milestone. It is a moment of reckoning. Thirty years of concealment. Thirty years of protection. Thirty years during which a man credibly alleged to have been a narcotics asset of American intelligence has been permitted to rise through Nigerian politics to the presidency itself.
I have spoken to several of my powerful college contacts presently holding senior positions in Washington. What they have told me, without ambiguity, is that Bola Tinubu has been in the pay and protection of American intelligence for three decades. That is why he fights with such desperation to prevent those files from seeing daylight. That is why agencies of the world’s most powerful government go to federal court to argue that Nigerians have no right to know who is ruling them. We are being governed by a traitor.
The Racism Behind the Strategy This arrangement does not happen in a vacuum. It is entirely consistent with an American foreign policy posture — particularly under the current administration — that views Africa not as a partner but as a theatre of control. A continent to be kept weak, fractured, and dependent. And nowhere does that suit Washington’s interests more than in rendering the largest Black nation on earth ineffective, rudderless, and consumed by manufactured misery.
A president who may not even be Nigerian by birth — whose origins remain the subject of serious and unresolved questions — placed at the helm of the most consequential African state, with his records under CIA lock and key, and his government systematically dismantling what is left of the Nigerian economy. Seven million businesses shuttered. Thirty percent of Nigeria’s small and medium enterprises destroyed. Ninety-four trillion naira in losses from divestments and closures in just two years of his administration.
The naira, once a currency of dignity, now collapsed from N460 to the dollar to N1,579 on Tinubu’s watch. This is not policy failure. This is the programme working exactly as designed. The Last Refuge of Tribalism And yet, a residual handful of Yoruba loyalists continue to haunt the margins of public discourse, wilfully blind to every document, every court filing, every statistic placed before them.
Their defence of this man is not political conviction — it is tribalism deployed as a weapon by a drug lord who has spent decades converting criminal proceeds into political loyalty. Let me be direct: Tinubu is no Sardauna of Sokoto. He commands no moral authority. He holds no genuine philosophical legacy. His grip on Lagos was purchased — manufactured through the spending of millions to construct a fantasy warlord out of a man whose original trade was poison. Money does not buy loyalty. It buys parasites and sycophants.
And that currency is running out. I will also say this plainly. I am the product of a powerful Yoruba woman. The insults directed at me to protect a man many of us doubt is even Nigerian — credibly alleged to be an adopted child from Guinea — bounce off me entirely. And invoking Ogun to silence me only confirms the village mentality that animates Tinubu’s political machine. It will not work. It has not worked. It will not work.
The Reckoning Approaches With the FBI and DEA now under court order to produce Tinubu’s records by June 1, 2026 , the architecture of concealment is crumbling. What has been hidden for thirty years can not be hidden much longer. The next administration of Nigeria will hold each and every member of this criminal enterprise to account. The officials who participated in the looting. The enablers who provided cover. The tribalists who chose ethnic solidarity over national survival. All of them. I have no respect for Bola Tinubu.
I have no fear of him. He is a man whose time is ending — a parasite that the body of Nigeria is finally preparing to expel. Nigerians are waking up. The comments on my page prove it. The anger is not despair — it is the necessary prelude to justice. Nigeria will be rid of this man. And when that day comes, the full accounting will begin. Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International, a civic and accountability platform focused on Nigerian governance and diaspora engagement.
He writes as an independent political commentator with no party affiliation, government contracts, or financial sponsorship.
