Nigeria Next Leader’s Son Owns a UK Mansion It Once Targeted
The 37-year-old son of Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu acquired a London mansion that the country’s government – which his father helped bring to power – was trying to seize over an alleged $1.6 billion fraud.
Previously unreported corporate documents show that Oluwaseyi Tinubu owns an offshore company that paid Deutsche Bank about $10.8 million for the property in late 2017. The lender had taken over the house from Nigerian businessman Kolawole Aluko through a foreclosure.
There’s no suggestion that the incoming leader was personally involved in the acquisition, yet it feeds into questions about the source of the Tinubu family’s wealth that were raised on the campaign trail ahead of February’s election.
Nigeria’s next head of state and his representatives have said he made his fortune before going into politics by inheriting real estate, investing well, and working as an accountant and oil executive in the 1980s and early 1990s. In an interview with the BBC in the run-up to the vote, Tinubu cited Warren Buffett as an example he followed to become rich.
Tinubu has faced allegations of graft in the past, which he denies. In 1993, he forfeited $460,000 to resolve a lawsuit in Chicago after US federal authorities said that bank accounts in his name held the proceeds of heroin trafficking. His lawyers have said he was never charged over the matter.
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