If Nigeria Takes Tinubu Back, Nigeria Is Doomed
A referendum on whether the state presently known as Nigeria is worth keeping
“By Kio Amachree, Sweden
The Referendum
If Nigeria allows Tinubu to come back as its president, Nigeria in my opinion is doomed. I will propose a referendum that asks the people to vote on whether the state presently known as Nigeria is worth keeping, or whether we should all go our separate ways.
I want nothing to do with a country that has a man like Bola Tinubu, or whatever his real name is, as president. Nigeria under Tinubu is not an independent state. It is a plantation run by Washington and London. I would rather freeze my balls off in Sweden than have anything to do with a non-independent country where Langley, Virginia calls the shots.
No Certificates, No Honour
Buhari had no school certificate. Tinubu has none. APC is a nesting place for professional criminals. The presidency is a hotbed of misinformation and corruption, with arrogance as the icing on the cake.
No one with any sense of honour would want to lead a country when every media outlet and every social media account is calling you a drug dealer who has sold Nigeria to the CIA. Only a walking zombie could accept the amount of embarrassment President Tinubu is suffering as he stabs himself in the back by fighting the release of his own drug files. Not any kind of drug. Heroin.
What the Record Shows
For those who think this is just Kio talking, here is the public record as it stands this week.
In April 2025, Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the FBI and DEA could no longer refuse to confirm or deny that they held records on Tinubu, and ordered them to search for and process the non-exempt files. The requests, filed by American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan, seek the entire FBI file on Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 1992–93 interview records from a case concerning a Chicago heroin-trafficking operation of the early 1990s.
On August 28, 2026, the FBI hand-delivered its remaining material to Judge Howell under seal, ex parte, for her eyes only, saying full disclosure could endanger its sources and techniques. The same week, Tinubu’s own lawyers filed a sixteen-page opposition asking the court to deny Greenspan’s motion and to let the existing redactions stand, citing personal privacy. The President denies all wrongdoing. Two days later, on August 30, he left Abuja for a three-week annual leave in Europe, first stop London, with the Presidency saying he will return to campaign for the January 16, 2027 election and insisting the trip has nothing to do with the court case.
A sitting president, fighting in a foreign court to keep his own heroin-investigation file sealed, while on holiday in the capital of the country I say runs half the plantation. Draw your own conclusions. I have drawn mine.
The Eighties and Nineties: Everybody Knew
In the eighties and nineties a lot of Nigerian middle-class people partook in the drug trade. Anyone driving through Ikeja could point out the brand-new mansions built by drug barons. They were well known, and it was said they were all so rich they only ate pounded yam, the rich man’s food.
Once, during a state visit by the German president and his wife to Nigeria, the First Lady of Germany refused to have anything to do with Nigeria’s First Lady, Maryam Babangida, as it was rumoured she was actively involved in the narcotics trade. It was embarrassing to us of the old guard, the original elite, that our so-called First Lady was being spoken of as a drug pusher known to the narcotics agencies throughout Europe and the US.
Dele Giwa wrote about it and was blown up by a bomb, an act that, to me, confirmed the truth in the rumour. A few days later I was at a party in Apapa and my cousin pointed out a short military officer in snakeskin shoes and a polyester shirt, dancing, and told me: that is the man who killed Dele Giwa. He made the bomb.
There are no secrets in the plantation called Nigeria.
A Plantation, Not a Republic
I am sorry. I am so disappointed with the present situation, and with the behaviour of the United States towards Nigeria, that I find it difficult to regard Nigeria as an independent state while this fraudster is president and the puppet of the Americans.
I could name big names, high-society people, about whom I hold information on their involvement in the narcotics trade and how that money made them supposedly respected in Nigerian high society. But I will keep those names to myself.
What I am saying is that Tinubu is not the only one. He is simply the only one who was stupid enough to want to become president, thinking he would beat the system and the modern-day technology that holds the secret files on us all. Others go into politics but stay in positions that are not scrutinised. I repeat: there are no secrets in Nigeria.
Two Sides of the Mouth
If the United States decides that it will keep playing games with the people of Nigeria to protect an 87-year-old asset, then it is up to us, the people, to decide whether it is worth our while having anything to do with a country that speaks out of both sides of its mouth.
Resign
Tinubu is out of the country. He should resign and stop torturing 230 million Nigerians with his special brand of evil, designed and produced in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. If they love him so much, let them keep him. We, the Nigerian people, no longer need such a person sitting on our highest throne.
I rest my case.
Nigeria belongs to Nigerians.
*Kio Amachree is the Founder and President of Worldview International, Stockholm, and writes under the Letters from Stockholm banner. The 1993 Chicago proceeding was a civil forfeiture in which no criminal charge was brought; President Tinubu denies all wrongdoing. Statements of opinion are the author’s own; recollections of the 1980s and 1990s are the author’s personal testimony, and rumours are reported as rumours. Published under Swedish press freedom protections.*
