Tinubu's Case File Is No Longer With Us — CCB

Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has dismissed as baseless, reports that its officials are jittery over the alleged disappearance of records relating to former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Senator Bola Tinubu.

CCB dismissed the report in its reaction to a publication in an online medium that there was tension in the office over missing Tinubu’s Assets Declaration form and case file from the vault.

The report claimed that the bureau started searching for the file when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) wrote to request the documents.

The publication, which accused officials of the CCB of complicity in the alleged disappearance of the records, read that the situation could frustrate an ongoing corruption investigation into Tinubu’s assets by the EFCC.

But a source in CCB who spoke to the Guardian denied any tension in the office. He also explained that the so-called case file is no longer relevant in CCB since the charges against the Apc Chieftain were sent to the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in 2007.

Tinubu was arraigned before the CCT in November 2007 for allegedly operating foreign bank accounts.

However, the three-man panel of the tribunal dismissed the case at Tinubu’s second appearance.

The CCB source, who pleaded anonymity, said: “When Senator Tinubu was the governor of Lagos State, he had issue with his assets declaration and was arraigned before CCT but for some reasons known to him alone, nothing meaningful came out of the trial.

“And once we have charged the case to the tribunal, we don’t go back to it except if, maybe, there is an appeal. But there was no appeal from the Federal Government.

“The file did not come back to us because I went through the archive to see the petition of the file and found the case was charged to the CCT. So, if anybody is interested in the case file, he should go to CCT.”