The next hearing for the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit regarding historical investigative records on President Bola Tinubu is set for today, August 28 in Chicago, United States.
Today, defendants and intervenor (President Tinubu) must file any opposition to the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment or cross-motions.
This follows a recent motion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asking US District Judge Beryl Howell for permission to submit sensitive portions of the records privately (in camera) for judicial review.
The request was contained in a motion filed on August 20, 2026, before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of Aaron Greenspan v. Executive Office for US Attorneys et al, according to an X post by Washington-based lobbying firm Von Batten-Montague-York.
The FBI, in the document attached and attributed to it, is seeking permission to file declarations ex parte and in camera in support of its renewed motion for summary judgment.
According to the filing, one of Greenspan’s FOIA requests sought the ‘entire FBI file’ on Tinubu, while another requested FBI Form 302 interview records involving Tinubu from FBI Case No. 245-IP-71386-UUUUUU covering the period between 1992 and 1993.
The FBI said it had invoked several FOIA exemptions, including Exemptions 6, 7(C), 7(D), 7(E) and 7(F), to withhold information responsive to the requests.
The agency said some of the withheld material relates to law-enforcement techniques and procedures and that disclosure of some information ‘could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual.’
The FBI said it could not disclose the full basis for invoking Exemptions 7(E) and 7(F) publicly because doing so could compromise the secrecy it is seeking to protect.
It therefore asked the court to allow it to submit declarations under seal and privately so that Judge Howell could assess whether the exemptions were properly applied.
The FBI said it would provide the declarations to the court by August 28, subject to approval of its request.
The filing also stated that Greenspan opposed the FBI’s request after both parties conferred on August 19.
The latest development is part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan in 2023 against the Executive Office for US Attorneys and other US government agencies.
The case concerns records relating to historical US investigations involving Tinubu, including requests to the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The records sought by Greenspan include documents connected to a historical investigation dating to the late 1980s and early 1990s and a 1993 civil forfeiture proceeding involving funds linked to Tinubu.
Tinubu has denied wrongdoing. The historical US proceedings resulted in civil forfeiture rather than a criminal conviction against him.