Tinubu Rushes To U.S. Court, Demands FBI, DEA To Keep His Personal Record Secret; Cites Privacy Rights Over His Drug Past

Tinubu Rushes To U.S. Court, Demands FBI, DEA To Keep His Personal Record Secret; Cites Privacy Rights Over His Drug Past

By The Republican News

Bola Tinubu has asked a U.S. court to enforce its earlier ruling that allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, to withhold certain document deemed personal to him.

In a motion filed on September 4, 2025, before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Mr. Tinubu represented by lead counsel Wole Afolabi and other attorney, argued that o going Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, requests by American activist Aaron Greenspan were aimed at exposing private details rather than examining government conduct.

The motion urged the court to uphold exemptions under the U.S. Privacy Act and FOIA Exemption 7 (C) which protects law enforcement records from disclosure when such release would amount to an unwarranted invasion of privacy.

Mr. Bola Tinubub lawyers said Mr. Greenspan’s FOIA requests – which sought the “entire FBI file” on the Nigerian leader as well as DEA records – do not align with the FOIA’s purpose of illuminating government activities but were instead meant to fuel political disputes in Nigeria.

“In conferring prior to filing this motion, Plaintiff asserted that the Court already resolved the issue of whether exempt records must be produced – despite not having heard from intervenor,” Mr Tinubu’s attorneys stated. “the Court appears to have chosen this language because the agencies still assert exemptions to the production of records.”

In response, Mr Greenspan urged the court to dismiss the plea, insisting Mr Tinubu was using his office to go after opposition figures and critics of his administration.

Mr. Tinubu’s legal team countered that his right to privacy remains intact even as a public figure, citing U.S. precedents which affirm that government officials do not forfeit all personal privacy rights by virtue of their position.

They further argued that Mr. Greenspan’s quest for decades-old files from the early 1990s lacked genuine public interest and only served the activist’s website PlainSite.org, which thrives on publishing documents to attract traffic.

“The Nigerian public’s interest in an individual is not a basis for a FOIA request,” the filing added, stressing that Mr. Tinubu was not a public official at the time of the alleged events.

The court has not yet rules on the motion.

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