The legal team representing former Ogun State governorship candidate, Ambassador Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has petitioned the United States Embassy, requesting a formal review of the recent visa denial issued to Ajadi and his wife, Mrs. Oyindamola Motunrola Ajadi.
In a letter dated August 18, 2025, the law firm Izunya Izunya & Co., led by Barrister Isaac Izunya, challenged the decision, describing the refusal as “erroneous, lacking specific justification, and contrary to established diplomatic norms.”
The petition by Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo addressed to the U.S. Consular General at 2 Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos, urged the embassy to exercise its supervisory authority and reassess the visa refusal, which was based on Section 214(b) of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. For added emphasis, the letter was also sent to the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria in Abuja, calling for high-level diplomatic intervention.
Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, the CEO of Bullion Go-Neat Global Limited—an enterprise with business interests in beverage production, real estate, entertainment (Bullion Records), and boxing promotions—had applied for a U.S. business visa alongside his wife. The application followed an official invitation from Tunnad Properties, a registered American real estate firm. Supporting documents, including the invitation dated May 15, 2025, were submitted, and the couple reportedly met all application requirements and participated in a visa interview at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.
“We refuse to admit that the United States of America, the most powerful country on planet earth, will issue a visa denial letter without being properly addressed to the applicant and without reason for such denial,” the demands by Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo read.
The legal team further noted that both Ajadi and his wife have established strong ties to Nigeria, with ongoing businesses locally and investments in Grenada and the United Kingdom. According to them, the absence of specific grounds for denial violates the spirit of the Nigeria–U.S. visa reciprocity agreement.
The demands warned that the refusal has caused “psychological trauma and pain” to the applicants, who, it argues, were denied transparency in the process.
Among the prayers submitted, the legal team demanded that the Consular General:
“Review the CCTV footage of the visa interview and the audio tape.
Re-examine all documents submitted by the applicants.
Provide clear, specific reasons if the denial must stand.”
The demands also copied the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria in Abuja, urging high-level intervention.
This development comes just some days after Ajadi himself publicly accused the U.S. of using visa applications as a tool for “economic exploitation and second colonisation.”
Speaking in Ogun State, Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo had decried the practice of collecting full visa fees from Nigerians while issuing mass printout denials without stating the applicants’ identity. He claimed the process is not transparent or justified.
“Nigerians are financing the American system, the visa fee is $185 per person, non-refundable. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of applicants every year, and it becomes a billion-naira pipeline flowing from Nigeria straight into American coffers. My name is unique, just like every applicant’s. Each individual deserves a letter stating clear reasons for denial. What we have instead is not transparency but institutional deception. Nigerians deserve better” Comrade Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo.
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