Tinubu $36 million lawsuit has been cleared in a US federal court — Femi Fani-Kayode named over alleged k!dnap threats linked to the Nigerian Presidency.
A US law firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, has announced that a $36 million federal lawsuit against Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Ambassador Femi Fani-Kayode has been cleared and authorized to proceed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
A American law firm going by the name Von Batten-Montague-York dropped something on X this week that stopped a lot of people mid-scroll. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
They said they have been cleared and authorized to move forward with a $36 million lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu and Ambassador Femi Fani-Kayode in a US federal court. Not a local Nigerian court. Not an arbitration panel somewhere quiet. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
The firm says the whole thing grew out of something very specific. According to what they posted, Ambassador Femi Fani-Kayode made direct threats to kidnap and physically harm one Dr. Von Batten. And they are not describing this as one man acting on his own feelings. They are calling it part of an organized criminal conspiracy that they say involves the Nigerian Presidency directly.
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That is not a small allegation to put in a court document. And the fact that a US court looked at it and said yes, this can proceed, is the part that makes it very difficult for anyone to just brush this aside and move on. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
The $36 million lawsuit is being built on some serious legal foundations. The firm mentioned the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act which most people know as JASTA, and the Anti-Terrorism Act. They specifically pointed to sections of US law that deal with international terrorism claims against foreign states and civil remedies available to American nationals who qualify under the statute. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
What that means when you strip the legal language away is this — the lawyers knew exactly what argument was coming and they built the case specifically to survive it. Because the immunity argument is the obvious first move for any sitting head of state facing something like this. They even said it themselves in their statement. They acknowledged openly that this $36 million lawsuit will test the limits of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and head-of-state immunity protections for as long as Tinubu remains in office.
They know it will not be simple. They are going anyway.
There is also another layer to this that goes beyond the courtroom. The firm said that once the filing is done, they will be sitting down with US, UK and European Union immigration authorities to talk about the threats that were allegedly made and whether Fani-Kayode’s travel and visa status needs to be looked at seriously. They cited specific provisions of American immigration law that allow for visa revocation and grounds of inadmissibility in situations like the one they are describing. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
So the $36 million lawsuit is one part of something that appears to be much bigger and more coordinated than a single court filing. This looks like a full campaign being run from American soil — legal, diplomatic and immigration pressure all moving at the same time, all pointed at the same targets. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
The firm also did not post this quietly. They tagged the House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the US State Department, the UK Home Office, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and the EU Commission all in the same post. Every single one of those tags was deliberate. They want the right eyes on this file on both sides of the Atlantic and they made sure those eyes would be hard to avoid. Tinubu $36 million lawsuit
As at the time this was written, neither President Tinubu’s office nor Femi Fani-Kayode had said a single word publicly in response. No statement. No denial. Nothing. NewsFlash NGR is watching for any reaction and will bring it to you the moment it comes.
What is already clear though is that this $36 million lawsuit is not the kind of thing that gets filed, makes noise for two days and disappears. A US court has given it the green light to move forward. That is a different category of serious from anything that has happened on social media or in press releases. It is now a legal process in a foreign jurisdiction and it is moving whether Abuja responds or not.
Nigeria is watching. And from the looks of that post, Washington is being made to watch too.
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