President Bola Tinubu has requested a United States federal court docket to push aside a contemporary strive via American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan to introduce new information in a lawsuit in search of get right of entry to to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Drug Enforcement Management (DEA) recordsdata related to a previous narcotics probe.
The objection was once contained in a submitting dated October 15, 2026, ahead of the US District Court docket for the District of Columbia, the place Greenspan is looking for the discharge of paperwork on the subject of investigations involving Tinubu and others within the overdue Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties.
Court docket paperwork display that Tinubu’s legal professionals adversarial Greenspan’s request for the court docket to take judicial understand of extra public information regarding alleged hacking actions, legal court cases and media studies.
Greenspan had filed the applying on October 8, in search of to introduce the fabrics to enhance a separate request for go away to behavior restricted discovery from Tinubu.
Tinubu’s criminal crew stated the fabrics didn’t determine the relationship Greenspan was once in search of to ascertain between the alleged hacking actions and his ongoing criminal struggle.
Additionally they faulted the timing of the applying, announcing it got here greater than every week after Greenspan filed his answer in enhance of his discovery request.
The legal professionals additional argued that the 176 pages of extra fabrics cited via Greenspan have been already to be had and must had been integrated in his previous filings.
In keeping with them, such fabrics can not mechanically be authorised as evidence of the claims contained in them.
“Information articles don’t seem to be suitable for judicial understand for the reality, content material, or veracity in their claims,” the legal professionals argued.