President Bola Tinubu has requested a United States federal courtroom to dismiss a contemporary try by American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan to introduce new data in a lawsuit in search of entry to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) files linked to a previous narcotics probe.
The objection was contained in a submitting dated October 15, 2026, earlier than the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the place Greenspan is in search of the release of paperwork relating to investigations involving Tinubu and others within the late Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties.
Court paperwork present that Tinubu’s attorneys opposed Greenspan’s request for the courtroom to take judicial discover of further public data regarding alleged hacking actions, legal proceedings and media reviews.
Greenspan had filed the appliance on October 8, in search of to introduce the supplies to help a separate request for depart to conduct restricted discovery from Tinubu.
Tinubu’s authorized group mentioned the supplies didn’t set up the connection Greenspan was in search of to set up between the alleged hacking actions and his ongoing authorized battle.
They additionally faulted the timing of the appliance, saying it got here greater than per week after Greenspan filed his reply in help of his discovery request.
The attorneys additional argued that the 176 pages of further supplies cited by Greenspan had been already out there and will have been included in his earlier filings.
According to them, such supplies can not routinely be accepted as proof of the claims contained in them.
“News articles are not appropriate for judicial notice for the truth, content, or veracity of their claims,” the attorneys argued.
