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U.S. court rejects request for 'FBI's report' on Tinubu

The United States Court of the District of Columbia has denied Aaron Greenspan's request to compel US security agencies to release information, including documents relating to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Greenspan filed a civil suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Department of State (DOS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He alleged that the defendants violated the FOIA by failing to issue determinations within the statutory deadline, conducting reasonable searches for records, and failing to produce records responsive to his FOIA requests. Greenspan returned to the court on Friday to file an emergency motion, learning that the Nigerian Supreme Court will hear the appeals by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and that of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). Greenspan claimed that the Nigerian Supreme Court deliberately moved the hearing of the appeals by Atiku and Obi to render his suit before the U.S court nugatory, contending that the documents he requested for would likely be directly relevant to the foreign proceedings in Nigeria.

Eric Ikhilae | Government information—Access control—United States | The Nation | Wednesday, October 25, 2023