Grubstakers - Episode 208: Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu Part 1

Episode Date: December 12, 2020

This week we cover the life and misdeeds of Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu also known as Yekini Amoda Ogunlere Hamid Sangodele Adekunle Tinubu or my favorite Bobo Chicago join us on this 2-part series on how he used his time to be a bagman in Chicago, a ruffian in his youth and why he definitely needs giant trucks of money or gold to come to his house. This episode was suggested to us by a listener and we encourage those reading this to reach out with any suggestions or hey maybe a review? Part 2 of this will be released on SoundCloud more billionaire shenanigans on our Patreon enjoy! Oh and for this episode Yogi read a book!

We find people that basically can't make enough to eat before they go into the fields. I don't believe that. I think that you're looking at other places that are not Central Romana. People actually who focus on and who like getting an orgasm never get one. Pull up your socks and figure out what you're going to do. Any chance I get to be a complete red state? Oh, yeah. Well, the future's always uncertain. But more uncertain now.

Listen, Blue Ivy is six years old. Beyonce today, she tried to outbid me on a painting. Everybody in Atlanta right now at the Louis Vuitton store, if you're black, don't go to Louis Vuitton today. That's why you need to take a meeting with Kanye West Bernard Arnault hello everyone welcome to Grubstakers the podcast on billionaires my name is Yogi Pollywall and joining me are my back to Africa movement co-hosts Sean P. McCarthy, Andy Palmer, Steve Jeffries and today we are going to be discussing Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinabu, also known as

Ikeni Amoda Ogunlere Hamid Sangodele Adenkele Tinabu, or my favorite, Bobo Chicago. A man who has taken advantage of the Nigerian city of Lagos to the tune of billions of dollars. The research on this episode was from a documentary titled The Lion Aura of Bardillion, as well as this book, Asiwaju, the biography of Bolane Ahmed Adukunle Tinabu. And mind you, listeners, that this book is on Amazon retailing for about $400. And that's the hardcover, and the soft cover is $279. I was able to find it on a Spanish third-party bookstore website for $27. I will say since I've done that I've gotten more Spanish YouTube commercials than ever before in my life. So I read this book it was over 500 pages it was

very long. The first hundred pages are various other Nigerian politicians talking about how great Bola Tinabu is so it's not a hundred percent fluff but it's a lot of fluff can I just say I do encourage the listeners to continue sending Yogi books that are worth $800 because he actually takes it as a challenge I I will say, like, when I was doing research for this, because we spent a little extra time making sure that this puppy was extra caliente, and I found the book online at, like, 3 in the morning, and I was like, what? $27 for this book? But that's worth $500.

And I will say there is some incriminating things in this book that I can understand why the Tinaboo team has inflated the value in this book that i can understand why uh the the tenaboo team has inflated the value of this book that much so we will get into all of that dirt on this episode we also all watched the documentary that bola sued over the line of portillion and andy was also called something else uh well on on youtube it has a different name, which is, and we think this is because the makers got sued, but on YouTube, it's Unmasking the Real Bola Ahmed Tenebu, Nigerian number one most corrupt politician. Right. Yeah, from that documentary, it's quoted as saying Bobo Chicago, as I like calling him,

is maybe the most indicted governor in the history of Lagos State since its creation in 1967. So I want to remind the listeners that on these episodes, we won't be covering all of Nigeria's political history. We will be covering parts of it, including Bola's time in the Nigerian political system in our part two. But in this part, we'll be covering a few things, but not all of them. Yes, we should at this point say goodbye to all of our listeners who just turned it off when we said we will not be covering all of Nigerian history on this one hour podcast. That's Yogi's side project that covers every single aspect of Nigerian history. He's bought 5,000 books and read about 3,000 of them so far. So I think this is our first African billionaire.

Is that correct? No. No? We've had one before. Palmer might not have been on that episode, though. I don't think he was. Yeah, we did Isabel dos Santos in Angola. Oh, okay. Well, well i mean for this africa's richest woman and only billy only billionaire oh she paid nikki minaj to perform

in angola and nikki minaj fans were not happy about that but nikki cashed that check wouldn't expect anything less from minaj um yeah no no, I mean, Yogi was insisting for this episode that we intro it with Africa by Toto and then play drops from Coming to America. And he wanted to do this voice and I just had to explain to him, Yogi, that's offensive. We can't do that for this episode. Well, it is a good thing, Yogi, that's offensive. We can't do that for this episode. Well, it is a good thing that Yogi avoided that sort of offensive behavior and instead introduced this episode with the much more tasteful intro that we're all part of the Back to Africa movement, which is one of those movements that really, really depends on the race

of the person advocating it. Come on, bro. We're all part of Pangea. Let's go back to Africa, yo. I do want to make it clear that in doing this episode, I wanted to remind our listeners that this is not a, hey, Nigeria sucks, doesn't it, podcast. This is a podcast that depicts billionaires as being corrupt, regardless where they're from. And so I've done my best to make sure that I'm pronouncing names correctly and not butchering everything on the show, which is, I think, more than I can say for some co-hosts on this program.

The Nigeria Sucks podcast is Yogi's second side project. Well, what are you going to do? I mean, I got to cater to all audiences. I mean, I got to really round out my demographics that are part of the show. Yeah, we have nothing but respect for the Nigerian people. Some of my best friends I have email correspondence with are in Nigeria. So like I said, we won't be covering the entirety of Nigerian politics, but our good co-host Stephen does have a look at a bit of the history of Nigeria. So if you're like me and you knew basically nothing

about nigeria before doing 30 minutes of research for this episode um you'll probably want 30 minutes of history just to get ready for uh to know who tinubu is um and like where he fits into the political scene at least a little bit going into this and so basically it was a british colony from 1861 to well the end of the decolonization period was 1960 and from that time there have been a number of military coups some of them successful others not The first such coup was in 1966, and it was carried out by the military against the Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Belewa. They installed one of the state governors as, eventually as Prime Minister. And there were a couple more coup coups and the last one was in 1993 where that actually led to kind of like a military junta where they just ruled by decree for a little bit

currently today after like a number of reforms and eventually the military leader was like pushed out of power democratically it's like more of it's settled into kind of a military is uh mostly on the leash of like a parliament and it's back to like parliamentary parliamentary politics where each of the 36 states in nigeria has representation so like they have a senate uh they have a prime minister and a head of state and all that. But so Steve, would you say the British colonial influence

was benevolent and helped Nigeria become a prosperous country with a functional parliamentary system? Well, I was reading up on this. Nugi sent me some links to look into and one of them was on this uh woman who's alleged to be um an ancestor i'm gonna bring that up later andy let's do that later you know what we'll talk about that anyways uh we'll i mean we'll get to that later but

in uh while reading into that uh one of the things they noted is that um the transatlantic slave trade had been banned officially but people were still taking part in the slave trade and so under that pretext great britain invaded nigeria to quote stop the slave trade that's right that's great you thought woke imperialism started with the Biden administration. Nope. Speaking of woke imperialism, sort of, during the colonial period, there's actually some records of the British administrators basically doing MMT. And it's a fantastic confirmation of the theory theory but also it was used for evil in this case and so they imposed the direct tax liability in that was payable only in their money and they made they they used that direct taxation to get people who were doing whatever they were

doing before the british got got there to support themselves. Instead, they would go raise crops for the British companies and sell it to them at whatever price it happened to be at in the colonial money. And then the traders would then go sell it for European money. And that was the way that they could force people to basically provide the initial accumulation for these capitalists. And so it's like it was an example of like, OK, MMT is true, but in this case it was used for evil.

Wow. Yeah, we should just remind listeners, modern monetary theory is a economic theory and one of uh the premises is that fiat currency gains its value through the demand of the government taking it as taxation is that correct steve yeah so it's uh in a nutshell it's one of the main claims is taxes drive money in the sense that they give you a reason to need to go get said money and accumulate it in general like in the sense that they give you a reason to need to go get said money and accumulate it in general like in the first place does anyone else like whenever they hear the word fiat now just because of internet poisoning picture ron paul surrounded by gold yeah i just like these fucking horrible colonial uh brit administrators are like dude dude, MMT Twitter is going to go crazy when they hear about this shit we're doing

here. These, they sort of were posters about it actually. Cause they're, uh, I'll, I'll post, I'll make sure the paper I'm referring to gets into our notes.

But, uh, there's records of these colonial administrators being like, okay, well, they're sort of like, haha, people think we're doing this for the

tax revenue but actually it's so that we can enslave people there's a there's got to be a um like a uh think tank somewhere coming up or like using this as a pretext to uh uh attack stephanie kelton and her book, The Deficit Myth. I just thought I'd give a balanced view. You know, it's a technology. It can be used for good and evil. MMT, that is. The LaRouches were right,

and Stephanie Kelton is a secret British agent who's using MMT to enslave the population. Was that one of their things? Well, the LaRouches believe everyone is a secret British agent. Oh, okay. Yeah. My favorite, they used to be on my campus and they would have posters of, they'd set up a table and have posters of obama with a hitler mustache and uh one of one of the posters

they also had was uh of a parrot and with a speech bubble that said crock obama's a cracker they were fun to have around just seeing those one of those like oh you won me over i guess i'm gonna learn about the royal family now. I would like to let our audience know that so far there is no Epstein connection to Bola Tinaboo as of this recording, but we'll see what happens over the next few days. Before we continue this episode,

I do want to give a shout out to the person who suggested this billionaire to me on Twitter. Thank you, Agent Jacko the Galactic Patrolman. This is for the suggestion as well as clarifications on some of the finer details for the episode. First of all, I want to mention that there is

a woman who Annie mentioned a moment ago who is celebrated as an African hero for being a slavery abolitionist while also participating in the slave trade herself. Her name is Madame Ephronie Tenebue and so when I saw that she shared the same last name as our Tenebue my eyes lit up and I went down several internet k-holes on if there was any relation between our billionaire Tenebue as well as this Madame. The story for the Madame Tenebu, briefly before the episode begins, is she had many husbands who mysteriously died.

Quattro. That's right. There were four of them. And as was reported, she used seduction and charm to get her way with mounting dead ex-husbands and a rise in the mid-Atlantic slave trade like Stephen was bringing up a moment ago. This next section of her history is quoted from ListOne.com, which had a profile on Madame Afronier. She continued in local slave trading and extended her prowess into tobacco and salt.

Do you know what modern political movement could have saved her husbands? Men going their own way. Like, just fellas, be brave out there. You never know when you're going to be dead husband number four to an Atlantic slave trader. This is before medical technology was able to produce the red pill. Still a few years off before the red pill was introduced. If only they had read it continuing uh the profile here uh following her husband's death two years later she reportedly used her influence to install her stepson alule as the oba of legos over that of kosoko's ensuring

her continued access to the commercial and other advantages associated with royal patronage. Shortly after she married her dead husband's military advisor, Yasufu Bada, Madame Efronie continued to extend her trade and ventured into the palm wine business. Through her marriage to the military advisor, she established contact and trading partnership with the Brazilian, Portuguese, and other European traders. Madame Tenebue created a monopoly in the palm oil business and in slave trade as well. The ammunition she got from selling slaves were used in the Yoruba Wars of 1840s and

1850s. It didn't take long for Madame Frony to partner with the British to trade African slaves. She became even more powerful after helping her brother-in-law, Akatunye, become the new Oba after the sudden death of her stepson, Oba Alue. You want to hear all of her husband's last words? Honey, did you put extra almonds in the dinner tonight?

Yeah, I mean, husbands aside, she's very proto-clinton yeah just trading slaves for guns i mean she's really competent you know this is like the mid-1800s when she's doing this shit like she is like a modern day player uh in the nigerian like film industry there have been like three or four different madame efronye movies made about her life because like in nigeria she's celebrated as a hero of the nation being sympathetic to slaves like they look at her like she helped end the slave trade with the foreign countries um but on her wikipedia though this claim is refuted as often cited hagiography about Madame Tenebue by Oladipo Yemetan paints a different picture of an unapologetic and profit-minded stance. This is from her Wikipedia.

On one occasion during her final sojourn in Abacuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before... Hashtag girl boss. ...a good debate, a la tease over the matter she reportedly explained i have a large household and i must feed them well i need money to do that that's why um so this person was just uh steven just put a uh emoji fight uh in our skype feed um in another section of the biography uh it talks about madame tanubu tells another slave trader domingo martinez that she would rather drown the slaves 20 in number than sell them at a discount so this woman was a fucking

mean bitch she you know like I would rather drown my slaves than sell them at half off. Right. Her life was what happens before the start of the movie Amistad. Here's what, how the Guardian Nigeria's feature about her starts.

Afun Porye, Astun Tinubuu Olomosa, later known as Madame Enformye Tenubu, was an astute businesswoman, kingmaker, and the first woman to kick against British rule in Nigeria during the colonial era. You know, it is something where I guess kind of with the modern feminist movement, there's been some backwards looking to try to find female heroes from history. And of course, you know, there are like very powerful women in history.

Sean, why are you hard? History is a horrible story of death and war. So the actual powerful women in history are just as bad as the men for the most part. So it just gives you this kind of like weird situation where you have these horrific slave trader women who would rather drown their slaves than sell them at a discount

being held up as like modern Hillary Clintons, which in fairness, you know, actually that is a pretty apt comparison. Sure, yeah. The shoe is proving that you really can't have it all. You don't have to settle for half price for your sleeves. So now, from my research and from questioning our source, Agent Jack Ho, technically there is no relation between Bola Tinaboo and Madam Tinaboo, is what I found.

But Stephen, as the least racist member of the podcast, and all around objective neutral of the podcast, if you could take a moment, look uh madam ifonate tenebu just go look her photo up real quick and tell me if you think that her and bola look alike listen listeners at home feel free to do the same let us know in the comments if you believe i think all black people look alike or these two people do have a similar complexion in terms of how their faces are shaped. Now, Steve, if you don't want to look at Bola, I'll look up... Actually, I'll do you one better, Steven. Look up Madame Ifrunier,

and let me know once you see her. Okay, I see her wiki. All right, so now look at my screen. On the, I don't know, left or right, the one with the veil is Bola's mom, and the one with the veil is Bola's mom and the one with the fez is Bola. Tell me these two people don't look similar, huh? Sean and Andy, you can get in on this too.

Well, this Afro blog says they look similar, but I don't know whether or not it's a white guy writing the article. That's moderately fair. But Stephen, at least admit to me that his mom and him look like they got the same face. A little bit, I guess. Right? All right. So.

Can I just say, as the most racist member of the podcast, I get the largest share of the Patreon. It's because I won the award. Sean, what do you think? Do you think they look alike, the fucking Madame Trinafew and Bola? Well, yes, but based on my aforementioned award, I don't think the listeners should trust me as an objective observer. So when I first found out about this,

I asked our source, and he let me know that there is a Tenebu Square in Nigeria, but that square is just named after uh the leader there is no relation between bola and madame funye when we were pitching this episode uh sean took one look at the picture and was like we already did kanye west but but but guys on page 185 of this book because i did read all this piece of shit it talks about how also this is later on in the story we're going to talk about how bola tinaboo moved to the u.s when he was in his mid-20s and before he moved his parents were

giving or his mother was giving her advice about moving to the U.S. Also, there was another Tenebu family member in New Jersey that Mama Mogaji drew the attention of her son Bolane as he prepared to leave Nigeria for the United States. His name, Henry Tenebu, who was born on December 20, 1944. Moving on to the next page here. Uncle Henry died on December 22, 2009 in the United States but lived most of his life in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Henry Tenebue married an African American lady from South Carolina, where she later relocated after Henry's passage, and much has not been heard of the fourth generation of the Tenebue family, starting with Madame Ifrenye Tenebue. So, from the book, I did find there is a family connection between bola tenebu and madame ifronye tenebu that's right ladies and gentlemen i read a book and it paid off well i mean well first of all episode description yogi read a book well first of all i do want to congratulate yogi on that uh research that we have definitively proved it but i mean it is like bulletin abu as we'll get into with his biography goes to

private schools he's able to study abroad in the united states it's like who has the fucking which children the children of which people in post-colonial nigeria have the money and resources to do that probably the descendants of the people who were slavers and cooperators with the colonial administration. It's just capital multiplying through generations, as we've seen several, over 200 times on this podcast now. Yeah, his mother was already a well-established, like his, you know, not someone who speculated to be his mother, his actual mother was a well-established business magnate um and so his family was already well established and i i don't imagine his mother you know came from nothing i'm guessing there was probably money in the family as there always is using like the one percent basically yeah of nigeria you know it's tough to say like i i know

that he has a connection to this madam. In some of the, by the way, we also used a forum called Nairaland for some of our research. And boy, that Nigerian forum on Lagos and all things Nigeria, fantastic. I've learned more about Nigeria in the last three weeks than I thought I would in my entire life. And I have to say, Nigerians, some fantastic people, ladies and gentlemen. If you don't know a Nigerian, get yourself a Nigerigerian friend yeah i used a different i used a different forum for my research they did they were talking about nigeria a lot there though but you seem to have a different perspective they're also talking about that country that borders nigeria

they probably weren't spelling it right but um yeah there's a lot of typos in this nigeria forum on the naira land forum there's um this uh a wonderful they have an agriculture section and uh just yesterday i was i was clicking through it and they had this uh one of the top topics was identifying your ducks hashtag rye farms um and it says hi everyone i know some of us here still don't know the difference between foreign ducks parentheses mallard derived muscovies parentheses local ducks and molards all caps which people sometimes mistake for a foreign duck well obviously from the looks you can tell the difference. Below is a pic of some of my foreign ducks at Rio Farms.

And then it's several pictures of ducks. It's very adorable. That's nice. That's like practical. Can I just say, Andy told us that story yesterday, and it was just so pure. It just reminded me of what the internet was before the CIA and Silicon Valley destroyed it with hate algorithms. You remember when people were just like, Hey,

check out my ducks instead of let's get this person fired and destroy their life. I love that. It's just practical advice for like, Hey, if you're having trouble distinguishing what type of ducks you got here, let me just explain this to you yeah this whole time maybe that thing about um like the nigerian uh prince stuff like that was that wasn't really a scam to take americans money it was just to get uh most of the western world to ignore the nigerian internet so that they could keep it out so it's pure yeah

there is another uh family connection via a viral tiktok star named mr tov but we're going to save that information for part two before we do our bio on bulletenebu, we're going to share a story or two here that refers to his controversies that are occurring at this time. Sean? Yeah, so Bola Tenebu is nicknamed the godfather of Lagos. Lagos is the wealthiest state in Nigeria. He's the former governor of Lagos state. And even since leaving, he's still kind of a political power player in Lagos, kind of a Robert Moses figure. And Yogi sent me this very, to me, funny story. I'm sure for the people who live in Lagos, it's not quite as funny. But this is from the orientaltimes.co. It's a story in October 2019. I'm quoting from it. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday received a petition to investigate the source of money conveyed in bullion vans to the home of all progressive Congress national leader Bola Tenebu on the eve of the 2019 presidential election.

So the thing is, what I love about that story is that it doesn't say a gold bullion van was pulled up to his house. It says vans, plural, were pulled up directly to his house on the eve of the 2019 presidential Nigerian election. I mean, a van can only support so much weight, and gold is heavy. So this petition was submitted by a private citizen, or the head of Concerned Nigerians, is an anti-corruption group. Tiji Adiyanju submitted this petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The petition reads, quote, The commission would recall that it was reported all over the news that bullion vans allegedly containing an undisclosed amount of cash were seen entering the home of Bola Tenebu, former governor of Lagos State, on the eve of the Nigerian presidential elections.

Tenebu? Who owns the content believing to be cash in the bullion vans that were seen entering the house of Bola Tenebu on the eve of the Nigerian presidential elections? Quote, has the commission based on its core mandates investigated the sources of the bullion vans? And is Bola Tenebu's house now a bank where bullion vans and is bulla tenebu's house now a bank where bullion vans now take money too and uh he he called on the commission to investigate those questions and so far we have not heard anything back from them it it sounds like he's just andrew cuomo oh andrew has gold running in and out, too? Probably. From the mayors?

From the governor's house? Does that seem inconsistent with anything else he's done? But you just imagine the person trying to bribe Bola Tenebu with a single Brinks truck full of cash, and him being like, what do you take me for, some sort of cheap whore? You're going to need at least three vans. I need plural bullion vans before I will get out of bed in the morning. That's so cool. There was another scandal that happened that we'll cover in part two involving the Leckie Toll Gates protesters and guns.

But after that incident, Tenebu's son, Sayee say allegedly jets out to london with his family and that was in october and then a few weeks after that it was reported that tenebus son kidnapped in london uh say tenebu son of former governor legos uh stite bola tenebu was kidnapped in london uh it was allegedly whisked away by protesters as a form of retribution to his dad over his silence on the NSARS protest and rumored participation in the massacre at Lickietolegate, which we'll cover in part two. So the Tenebue family is always an exciting bunch,

if you know what I mean. Yeah, and I mean, just kind of before we start the bio to give people the too long didn't read is uh the guy built a fortune through political corruption and favor trading and stuff and uh the documentary we mentioned at the start the lion of bordillion estimated he'd built a net worth of companies and properties through his political office holding uh that was worth in 2015 over 1 trillion naira the nigerian currency which i believe we converted to about 3.2 trillion or 3.2 billion that's right u.s dollars but it is nice that we are covering our first trillionaire on the podcast yeah well we

haven't gotten into the zimbabwean trillionaires yet. Well, there's always time if we're not murdered by the Tenaboo family. Yeah, just another few months, Elon Musk will be there. Correction, it's $2.6 billion. I don't know, someone might be sickler about that, but I've got the conversion up. So you use the $3.88 for it or so? $3.88 to $1? By the time we're done editing this, there's going to be a rally on the Naira on the Forex market,

and our numbers will be completely out of whack. It's out of date everything. It'll achieve parity with the dollar, and he'll just be the emperor of the world. Well, you can see why he's hedging with gold. It's true. That's why them bullion trucks showed up. Yeah, that's why the bullion trucks are in play.

So moving ahead on to the bio of Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinabu, the book goes into detail about how Nigeria had an education first reform that Bola Tinabu was born right after. There are some conspiracies involving how that Bola Tinabu was born right after. There are some conspiracies involving how old Bola is,

because in 1999, when Bola was contesting the governorship election in Lagos, he was questioned about why his birthday was listed as 1952 and 54 and 58. And on his passport, it was also that his name was listed as eric bg and his name being adam mabula which is suspicious i don't know anybody who needs to change where their name is or date of birth for any reason that isn't malicious we'll get to it later but i do just want to say the most relatable thing about this guy is that on the forums he filled out when he ran for political office he lied about every single school he ever went to and upgraded all of them yeah that that is something that definitely happened as well uh from the book involving his date of birth controversy uh some people say or some of the people mind you the book is very

biased towards bola obviously um but in the book one of the people that mind you, the book is very biased towards Bola, obviously. But in the book, one of the people that knew Bola said that if you wanted to apply for a foreign visa, especially to the US or the UK, the office that would issue that would put a stamp on your passport. And if you're told that, hey, you can't go to the US or the UK, you couldn't come back because you already had a stamp on your passport saying you've already tried this. And so people in Nigeria supposedly would just leave and then get another passport. Like they'd be like, my name is this. I need a new passport and then show up and try again.

So some minor general immigration fraud could have taken place allegedly. Yogi would like the listeners to know that that book where the first 100 pages are testimonials from friends about how great the subject is, is biased towards the subject. One of the links Yogi sent me was a Forbes interview with him where it was just the most masturbatory thing where he's like, oh, you know, when we started out, we only had a World War II era tanker and it went five miles per hour when it was running but when the tide was against it it moved backwards and i was like why why do i have to read this like stupid shit and then like now i'm realizing like

oh no yogi read 100 pages of this kind of bullshit this is the type of shit that i read tinaboo is a fighter a fighter for civil liberty. A fighter for democracy. And that is how it should be. He fought for democracy in the Third Republic when Abiola's mandate was annulled. And today he continues to fight with whatever God has given him. Dot, dot, dot. It's like, I'm telling you, the book doesn't even start for like 70 to 100 pages.

It's hilarious. you look at this book and it's like this is a thick fucking book asu aju leaves everyone in awe he has more going on in life than most people have in a whole lifetime he's an inspiration to many and those of us who know him he is awesome honorable femi gba ja bia mila baja milia house leader nigeria's eighth GBAJA Biamila Bajamilia, House Leader Nigeria's 8th House of Earth's National Assembly Abuja FCT Nigeria so there's a lot of that in this book how many other podcasts

read 100 pages of friend testimonials just to start the research listen if I didn't read them fucking 100 pages of bullshit I wouldn't have found out about the madam so well worth my time, unfortunately. So, from the documentary, Bola Tenebu is the biggest landlord in Nigeria, and we'll continue that later. But keep that in mind as I begin to tell you all of the details about his youth.

His father died at a young age, and his mother raised him primarily. He supposedly went to St. John's Primary School in Arolia, Lagos. Did his father die in the traditional way members of the Tinaboo family die? Shortly after eating dinner prepared by their wife? No, I don't think he was unfortunately yeah his mother whose name was abia to asibi mogaji is bola's biological mother and she was born into the mogaji family on lagos island maybe we should also mention um yogi uh lagos is like by it is like a third of or no a quarter of 90 under nigeria's population and it has a gdp of like 136 billion like a lot of like a lot of like forecasts of urban

development for africa say that lagos will be like new york city or something in like 20 years definitely so like they're they live in like an area one of the wealthiest areas of the wealthiest one of the wealthiest cities in africa yeah i believe that because of the slave trade that we discussed earlier in the episode as well as a few other factors lagos became a port hub and the largest epicenter of business and commerce in nigeria so bol Tinabu being born in that area certainly added to his benefit of what he would do later with his life. Yeah, Lagos Island is, from what I understand, more or less Manhattan.

It's basically Wakanda. Steven, you're supposed to be the least racist. So he would... Well, well, well, look who just moved into second place might have some competition in next year's voting they mind vibranium that's true that's the real source of wealth let us know in our comments what you think who you think is the most and least racist on our show. Rank us. One through KKK.

So he went to St. John's Primary School. Yogi would like to note that Pakistanis aren't a race. Okay, all right. Yeah, the IP addresses of everybody voting for Yogi seems to entirely be concentrated in Kashmir. Listen, just because I hate Kumail Nanjiani doesn't mean I hate everyone from Lahore. This is a tough episode for Yogi to do because there's a lot of geopolitics between the Modi government and Lagos. There is a similarity between Bola and Modi. Like Modi promised to install a toilet in everyone's that votes for him's home.

One of Bola's promises that- Everyone who votes for him? Yeah, I believe it was everyone. Well, I mean, everyone, but I believe the claim was everyone that will vote for him. But with Bola, he claimed that he will build 10,000 homes for the Nigerian public, and that never happened either. So similar line to the people happening between the two of them.

Okay, so... No, so he's a little bit of Bill de Blasio. Yeah. Yeah, that promise that he would build 10,000 houses for the poor on his first run for governor, and then he just didn't do shit. It kind of reminds me of when I play Tropico and I have an election coming up and I just make a bunch of bullshit promises. And then just I, and then I just build a bunch of military bases and police stations. And I go through the spreadsheets of opinion polls and I look for every citizen who disapproves of my government and i have them arrested or killed so it's like i understand why people do it in real life it's pretty fun if if you get it on pc

sean spends eight hours a day playing tropico what is work sleep tropico yeah i've automated my job so i just play tropico full time now so in 1965 bolo would enter uh st john's primary school which from the book said that there were about 600 students in total at the school um later on his mom would enroll him in children's home school in ibadon and that place was like basically instead of teaching 600 kids it would go from that to like a group of like 15 and he they credit that specific school with having a lot of people that would later become politicians and business runners so in In 1966, he would go to the children's homeschool. After his time at children's homeschool, there's not too much about Boland's childhood. He says that he was a little bit mischievous and his mom liked that he was a rascal because rascals always try to do things differently.

By the age of 20, he really wasn't doing that much he had like continuously stolen his uncle's car to where his uncle was like screw it i'm just gonna get another car and you could have my shitty vita buddy and like him and like his 11 friends would like take the car and go to like parties and stuff and apparently at one point he went to like a festival and there was like a shooting and his mom was really worried and then around then she basically his mom's quote is saying he was a bum he does nothing but hang out he's been doing nothing for three years uh yeah he talks about uh bola lived it up in those days we really had a good time tundi badejo balaji agaba rashida bina these

are his friends there was a popular time 11 of us packed ourselves into a volkswagen beetle and headed to the university of ibadon though majidun ikudu road for the havana night as we were going through majidun one of the car's tires burst and we had a serious accident so the guy's just chilling in early 20s he didn't give a fuck, you know. Just born a little later, he could have been Fifth Mike. And by the way, for the listeners,

that sound of page turning that you hear from Yogi, that's him skipping through 20 pages of friend testimonials to get to every biographical detail. That's, well, that's in keeping with, if you try to look up Bola Tinabu in, like, Nigerian press, it's, like, either people who are sort of, like, the documentary hate him, but a lot of them are, like, just Bola stans.

Yeah. Right. Pretty much. Also on social media. He decided to take education outside of Nigeria. At that time, people would choose to go to the UK over the US, but his uncle advised him to go to the US, specifically Chicago, and start university at a community college and then transfer to a larger college. From the book here, I'm quoting, The initial plan was for Bola to fly directly to Lagos and then to O'Hare Airport. Unfortunately, there was bad news from Chicago

and the news was that there was bad weather. And so instead, they flew straight to JFK Airport. But they got shell-shocked on what awaited them. This is mid-1970s here. The city was at the brink, garbage and dump everywhere. Derelicts and vagrants jostled for space they were being harassed by some urchins while some policemen and security guards handed them some pamphlets as new arrivals to the city the city of death as new york was called in one of the

pamphlets there was a picture of the grim reaper itself in the form of a skeleton and boldly inscribed were these words welcome to the city of fear a survival guide for visitors to new york city he and his friend left legos together balaji agaba exchange glasses so i looked at this pamphlet it is a real thing and it was the nypd were distributing these things because the city was gutted financially and so they wanted to drum up fear from tourists. You know, they actually made a movie about that trip where Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall played him and his friend. All right, so Bola... Was that Flapper?

I mean, that was... I got that confused confused the nutty professor so bola and his and his friend would end up crashing with someone they knew in new york and that guy was like dog the city's broke it's this it's bankrupt you you fucked up being here and his uncle uh alu alupa alu alu papa was like hey what where'd you guys go and they're like we're in new york and his uncle said bola aloha long bay new york which translated is from yoruba means bola new york is for rich guys so nothing's changed if you know what i mean um so then after this in this because they're in the winter of 1975

if you haven't been to New York just full of street urchins asking for more porridge trying to sell you newspapers oh yeah so they're in New York for three days and then they go to Virginia please sir can I have the pirate feed

of your podcast after three days Virginia. Please, sir, can I have the pirate feed of your podcast? After three days, they go to D.C. and somebody they know there, Popola, advised them that it would be better if they went to Alexandria, Virginia to save money because D.C. is expensive. And so he helped them get a one-room apartment. And then they became cab drivers for about seven months. But then during that time, at one point, Bola took a passenger who he didn't realize was drunk.

When I drove to his house, he pointed a gun at me instead of paying the fare. And he took my leather jacket and said, get in your car and get lost. So he's like, fuck this. I got to figure something out. So his uncle called and he said we did not send you to america to become a taxi driver but to go and study and become a responsible member of the society and do the family proud so under family pressure he decides to go to chicago that summer so for the first eight months of their time in the united states they go from

landing in new york to then being cab drivers in d., and then he ends up in Chicago, and he first studies at Richard J. Daly College, which now is a part of Chicago State University, but at the time was the community college of the area, from my research here. But actually, Yogi, I read on the papers he filled out when he ran for governor that he went to the far more prestigious University of Chicago. He does claim later on he would go to, I mean, the book talks about how Chicago was great. There was black people there. There was a large group of Haitians at that time that were in Chicago. So he didn't feel like so alone in terms of how he was experienced

in New York and D.C. He would be a security guard while going to school, and he would lose that job because he fell asleep on the job. Later on, he would then wash dishes in a Holiday Inn, getting paid $2.68.

I mean, all of this stuff is like, it's not really that important. He got his cousin a job that came later. He quotes himself as saying, I was good in mathematics and business courses. I see what you reveal. In fact, if I were to choose a career for myself, I'd have chosen marketing instead.

And then so he graduates from Chicago State University in 1979. So at this time, he graduates, and he then joins the Fortune 500 corporation, Deloitte. And at Deloitte, he would travel the country, and even parts of the world, auditing other companies and corporations. And I personally think how he learned to fleece people later on his life is when he's in his late twenties here, about 27 years old, working at Deloitte at a middle management position. And he would, he wouldn't go back to Nigeria until his early thirties for a job for Deloitte. And his mom was like, Hey, you gotta come back to Nigeria, bro. And he's

like, I like being in Chicago. What like hey you gotta come back to Nigeria bro and he's like I like being in Chicago what's the point of coming back to Nigeria sit out sit out a couple coups yeah it is great that if you can just like stay awake in accounting classes it's like a how-to guide on stealing money from people so in the late 80s Bola Tenebu would be working at Deloitte and he would visit Nigeria where his mom would be like, hey, come back to Nigeria, son. We need you. And he'd be like, no, I'm good in Chicago, yo. And while he's in Chicago, he's offered a position at GE that is twice his pay and very lucrative. And Bola says, all right, I'm going to jump ship.

And his boss at Deloitte says, bro, GE is racist. Don't go to them. You're going to realize that they're going to treat you like a black guy. And Bola's like, nah, I'm good, bro. I'm going to go to GE and get more money instead of staying here. And when he would go to GE, he would be paid double, and then he would be given an assistant who's white who he's training. And when it comes time to promote Bola, they just promote the assistant above Bola. And in that moment, Bola realizes, oh, fuck, this company sucks. I got to get the fuck out of here.

And so in the early 90s, he would move back to Nigeria and work at a company called Mobile Oil Co. Now, the book and the Wikipedia don't cover this, but the reason he has the title of Bobo Chicago is because he is linked to dealing heroin from the late 80s to early 90s. And in this time, he would forfeiture an estimated amount of $460,000 and up to $1.4 million in cash. Was it like $460,000 in property and $1.4 million in cash? Apparently it's all in cash, bro. Rainy Moss style, straight cash. Oh, so this is like different accounts? This is different accounts, yes.

From the report itself, it talks about how he would deposit a sum of $1,000 in travel checks after five days opening account, specifically January 4th, 1990. He would deposit the sum of 80 000 in the account later on he talks about saying in 1990 alone bola tenebu deposited 661 000 into his individual money market account and in 93 he deposited the sum of 1 million 200 thousand six 216 500 into the same money market account um people criticize him for this but there's a good chance that by dealing heroin he could have made never mind an end utero as good as they were yeah he was it wasn't about the money he just wanted kurt cobain to have the inspiration

it's about it was about ending glam hair rock of the 80s. So he would be the bag man, and he would use CityBag NA, CityBag International, as well as First Heritage Bank. Here is an audio drop of everything that we just discussed. The 1993 drug narcotics charge. Unknown to Nigerians, in 1993, six years before he ran for his first term in office in 1999, Tinubu was charged in the United States of America for narcotics or drug trafficking. തതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതેન্�েનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનেનোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরো in Article A. Unquote. The United States filed a verified complaint for forfeiture against the funds in the above-captioned defendant Tinubu's accounts

because there was probable cause to believe that the property represented proceeds of narcotics trafficking or is a property involved in financial transactions തതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതതેরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোরোর� that Tinubu escaped physical time in prison by entering a plea bargain and thus forfeited all funds in all his accounts to the United States government. There is surely a lot more to Tinubu's dark past that Nigerians are yet to fully unravel. It ends with a operation hashtag uh no man is god and hashtag pharaohs of legos um so yeah so that entire story of um ge was racist and uh deloitte wasn't i mean maybe it's

the fact that the u.s government was like hey are you running $1.8 million in drug money for heroin, yo? Other reports. You got to give respect to him, though, because anybody who's dealing heroin with an accounting degree is just doing it for love of the game. You have, like, that part of the story doesn't make any sense to me. Like, you have a good job. Why are you running heroin? Or is he doing the books for a heroin operation? It's confusing to me.

It is intriguing, but in terms of Wikipedia as well as the bio, for some reason they just don't mention this part. They don't mention why he's nicknamed Bobo Chicago. No, that doesn't seem like a relevant thing about a candidate for political office. I do want to mention, though, the bank accounts, the nine different bank accounts that were seized, belonging to, you know, First Heritage Bank and Citibank, among others. That's actually pretty important because later on, when Bola Tinabu is established in political office those same banks would be accused of holding his foreign accounts of the money that he's stealing and offshoring from Nigeria so I mean it is kind of

something that we've talked about with our offshore money episode with these various corrupt despots in third world countries it's easy to just say oh this is just a corrupt country but at the end of the day it's easy to just say, oh, this is just a corrupt country. But at the end of the day, it's always American and European banks who are cashing the fucking checks. Right. So it is, for some reason,

Citibank and First Heritage Bank have a relationship with him that goes back to his heroin dealing. And then they're happy to help take the tax money of the good people of Lagos from him as well. Yeah, indeed. So at this point, we're going to conclude part one

on our episode of Bolane Ahmed Adekunle Tinabu, the governor of Lagos, Nigeria. The man would later become the Lion of Bordillion and have a real estate empire that rivals... I mean, Donald Trump is kind of small compared to Bola at this point but there are several more scandals involving taxes and many many other things that we'll be covering in our part two um yeah we've told the story of bolo in america but on part two it's uh the empire

strikes back and returns to nigeria and brings his innovative heroin business strategies back home. Once again, we want to give a shout out to our source, Agent Jacko, the Galactic Patrolman from Twitter. Thank you for suggesting this billionaire. If you have a suggestion, please let us know via our Twitter. We really appreciate you listening to our program. Thank you very much for listening to Grubstakers.

My name is Yogi Poliwal. I'm Sean P. McCarthy. I'm Andy Palmer. I'm Steve Jeffers. Check us out on Patreon. Thank you. Good night. Rather, it has become a mystery how just one man can play the masquerade and the masquerader

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