What do we need this for pls?

He should always remember his godfathers that supported him to reach the position. Abraham adesanya and others.

That was Gubernatorial Election,
It's not the Same as Presidential Election

trutharena:
Lagos 1999 — Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the early hours of today coasted home to victory as the elected governor of Lagos State. He beat two opponents to emerge governor in a race which was hotly campaigned for but later became almost a walk over at the polls.

It was not so much a surprise that Tinubu who returned from a three and a half year exile beat his opponents, Chief Dapo Sarumi of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Architect Nosirudeen Kekere-Ekun of APP. What however shocked the losing parties and even Tinubu himself was the wide margin between the winner and the losers.

In a result that was announced by Professor Jelili Omotola vice chancellor of Univesity of Lagos and returning officer for the gubernatorial poll, at about 5. 20 am this morning:
-- Tinubu scored a total of 841,732 votes
-- Kekere- Ekun's 122,742
-- Sarumi's 184,900.

Tinubu won in 19 of 20 Local councils in Lagos state while Kekere - Ekun won Ibeju Lekki local government council.

Members of Tinubu's campaign organisation who set up offices in a building at Maryland, and a suite at Mainland Hotel were jubilating this morning when the last of the results came in from Kosofe LG where Tinubu secured 70,442 votes to Sarumi's 6,942 and Kekere-Ekun 3977.

The victory was heralded with loud shouts of joy at Tinubus house in Alausa, Ikeja a distance of 200 metres to the Governor's office where he will preside over the affairs of volatile Lagos from May 29. Although Tinubu who hugged and backslapped supporters, friends and campaign workers this morning will not grant an interview yet, he told P.M. News that the task has just began. "There is a big job to be done in Lagos.

The campaigns and elections are just minor aspects of it. The time has now come to sit down and do serious planning", he said in a huff. He thanked all citizens of Lagos and asked that they continue to cooperate with him in the task of making Lagos excel. By 6.00 am Sunday morning some of his friends started putting pen to paper to draft his acceptance speech which he delivered to the people of Lagos at 3.00 p.m. on Sunday.

Tinubu, an accountant attended university in Chicago, United State. He was elected a senator in 1992 but fled into exile in 1994, following the threats to his life by the Abacha junta over agitation for the validation of the election of 1993. He returned to Nigeria in September, rallying his supporters to gain a stunning victory in the primaries of the Alliance for Democracy.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/199901110186.html

keep on consoling yourselves. Failed Tinubu urchins. Una eye go clear come 2023

Had nothing to do with him really. It was more about the south west voting for AD en masse cos they used the Awo image to their advantage

PressMyButton:
Tinubu has never lost an election. He is a serial winner, a champion and a victor.
Northerners have cancelled all Ibo candidates, also, ibo cannot get up to 25% in SW. Tinubu will flog Atiku after dumping ibo first lady.

Tinubu will win the Presidential election by a landslide. Mark this post.

Says a rabble-rouser, shey when you were sowing the seeds of discord in 2015 you taught Karma won't come calling?

The speed with which you all will be shamed ehhh?

Honor10:
He will win the presidential election in 2023 by landslide too.

The irrelevant 5% from the yeast can knack their heads on the wall.

Let him first pick the party’s ticket.

AbuAeesha:
All i know is that election is not won on nairaland

Forget all these people making noise on social media

That was 1999 but not now.... Nigerians are now wise now... Nigerians do not want bullion van president

joyandfaith:
That was how AD swept polls in SW 1999. May you are still a toddler then. Tinubu was highly respected in yoruba land up to 2011.

Was the 1999 Lagos election about Tinubu the individual, or about AD the party

abjisperson:
After Funsho Williams, who else dey?

isorryte!

If he like make he win by acre earthquake, e no concern anybody

Make e come win na. Lol

trutharena:
Lagos 1999 — Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the early hours of today coasted home to victory as the elected governor of Lagos State. He beat two opponents to emerge governor in a race which was hotly campaigned for but later became almost a walk over at the polls.

It was not so much a surprise that Tinubu who returned from a three and a half year exile beat his opponents, Chief Dapo Sarumi of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Architect Nosirudeen Kekere-Ekun of APP. What however shocked the losing parties and even Tinubu himself was the wide margin between the winner and the losers.

In a result that was announced by Professor Jelili Omotola vice chancellor of Univesity of Lagos and returning officer for the gubernatorial poll, at about 5. 20 am this morning:
-- Tinubu scored a total of 841,732 votes
-- Kekere- Ekun's 122,742
-- Sarumi's 184,900.

Tinubu won in 19 of 20 Local councils in Lagos state while Kekere - Ekun won Ibeju Lekki local government council.

Members of Tinubu's campaign organisation who set up offices in a building at Maryland, and a suite at Mainland Hotel were jubilating this morning when the last of the results came in from Kosofe LG where Tinubu secured 70,442 votes to Sarumi's 6,942 and Kekere-Ekun 3977.

The victory was heralded with loud shouts of joy at Tinubus house in Alausa, Ikeja a distance of 200 metres to the Governor's office where he will preside over the affairs of volatile Lagos from May 29. Although Tinubu who hugged and backslapped supporters, friends and campaign workers this morning will not grant an interview yet, he told P.M. News that the task has just began. "There is a big job to be done in Lagos.

The campaigns and elections are just minor aspects of it. The time has now come to sit down and do serious planning", he said in a huff. He thanked all citizens of Lagos and asked that they continue to cooperate with him in the task of making Lagos excel. By 6.00 am Sunday morning some of his friends started putting pen to paper to draft his acceptance speech which he delivered to the people of Lagos at 3.00 p.m. on Sunday.

Tinubu, an accountant attended university in Chicago, United State. He was elected a senator in 1992 but fled into exile in 1994, following the threats to his life by the Abacha junta over agitation for the validation of the election of 1993. He returned to Nigeria in September, rallying his supporters to gain a stunning victory in the primaries of the Alliance for Democracy.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/199901110186.html

Nice. How about the primaries.? The one between Tinubu and Funsho Williams

PressMyButton:
Tinubu has never lost an election. He is a serial winner, a champion and a victor.
Northerners have cancelled all Ibo candidates, also, ibo cannot get up to 25% in SW. Tinubu will flog Atiku after dumping ibo first lady.

Tinubu with his powerful nothern networks, will win the Presidential election by a landslide. Mark this post.

The problem with some of you is that you talk too much.

AD won by a landslide. Tinubu rode on their bandwagon. Then he was preaching restructuring and self determination which yorubas were yearning for and part of the core principles of the party

Once he secured power re-election in 2003 he abandoned Yoruba struggle and dumped AD

Memphis357:
Funsho Williams would have been a better governor of Lagos than Tinubu.

You mean Funsho Williams who was comfortable holding a cabinet portfolio under the military administrator of Lagos State at a time all his mates were out there making huge personal sacrifice and taking deadly risks in their drive to end military rule and return Nigeria to democracy?

Please enough of this bullion van thief. Tinubu can only be the president of SW agberos. Nairaland is trying to force this thief on us. Nigerians make una shine your eyes oh

Fake fake... check the domain age of that website..
Fake story

We forget that it was the political party AD that everyone actually voted for and not the person. Could have been Zubby Michael as flag bearer and he would have won by a landslide.

Yes because it was election for Yoruba Muslims which some Yoruba Christians didn't understand.

I don't know why those from South-east and South-south where Tinubu did not rule as governor are those that abuse Tinubu most whenever his name is been mentioned. Some of them couldn't even remember their governors between 1999-2007 again but Tinubu's name always ring bell in their ears.

Tinubu's immunity expired in 2007 and PDP left govt in 2015. Tinubu was without immunity for good 8 years under PDP, yet, Obasanjo,Yardua and Jonathan had nothing to rope him in as a criminal. Even Nuhu Ribadu did not probe him under Obasanjo. Three (3) EFCC chairmen (Ribadu, Farida Waziri and Lamorde) couldn't trace anything incriminating against Tinubu between 2007 -- 2015 but you want him probed now. Has he taken any contract from state or federal govt that he has not executed? Has anybody reported him for financial crime? You always refer to Tinubu's companies as if he had no means of livelihood before becoming governor.

Tinubu was an Executive Director/board member of Mobil Oil Producing before he joined politics. Obasanjo and Atiku established private universities as sitting President and Vice President. Obasanjo established Presidential Library as a sitting President. Atiku sold shares of companies to himself as VP and Chairman of Privatisation Council. Peter Obi took state money to support family business as Governor of Anambra. Yet, these people are your heroes. When other former governors were busy shipping their states resources abroad & developing foreign economies, Tinubu was busy establishing his businesses in Nigeria. Those companies are employing several hundreds of bread winners in Nigeria.

He met Lagos IGR at about N600m per month and he left it at N12 - 14bn per month. When Obasanjo seized Lagos allocations despite Supreme Court judgement against Obasanjo, Tinubu was paying salaries and pensions regularly for three and half years that it lasted. It was Yardua that paid the allocation to Fasola's govt. Tinubu used his initiative to create LASTMA and Obasanjo in his copy cat attitude moved ahead to create FERMA.

Those of you that always criticise Tinubu because of envious hate, when will you start criticising Ikpeazu who has not been paying salaries and pensions Abia with no single project to show in Abia. Why did you not say Tinubu was corrupt in 2011 when he supported Goodluck Jonathan? Did He not win Jonathan govt at code of conduct tribunal when he was charged? Tinubu this and Tinubu that as if he is your Governor or President. If you are abusing Tinubu because he is sponsoring APC, Is Atiku not using money to sponsor PDP and his Presidential project? Where is he also getting the money from? Where did he get all the dollars he spent during APC Presidential primary in 2014 and PDP presidential primary of 2018?

Tinubu is no longer a Governor and neither is he the President but he is your problem. When Tinubu was busy building his political structures since 2003 after PDP rigging in south-west, Where were you? When he gave Atiku his party to use for his Presidential project in 2006/2007, where were you? When he was busy building bridges across 6 geo political zones, where were you? In 2015, you all mocked when Ahmed Lawan and Gbajabiamila lost out the leadership of national assembly to Saraki and Dogara. He was not disturbed. He moved on till he was successful in 2019.

When he was bringing up Babachir Lawal and Boss Mustapha (former and current SGF) in ACN, where were you? When he was doing these, Bode George was calling him a local champion but now the local champion in his tenacity has built a national ruling party, you are envious. Tell us your governor that performed better than Tinubu. Your Peter Obi couldn't build APGA in South-east. Instead, he defected to PDP to kill APGA.

Let Tinubu Be! He is not your problem!! Your past & present governors are your problem!!!

nku5:
AD won by a landslide. Tinubu rode on their bandwagon. Then he was preaching restructuring and self determination which yorubas were yearning for and part of the core principles of the party

Once he secured power re-election in 2003 he abandoned Yoruba struggle and dumped AD

He abandoned AD because Afenifere had used the party as a platform of compromise with Obasanjo and the PDP which to introduce rigging and brigandage into the SW as evidenced by the 2003 election.
Recall that when Olu Falae was still in court against Obasanjo at least for the pursuit of deepening democracy by way of seeing the suit to a logical conclusion at the Supreme Court, it was Afenifere and other AD chieftains that introduced tribalism into the whole thing by pressuring Falae to withdraw the suit on the argument that Obasanjo is their brother all the same and that was the second boost to the politics of primordial and ethnocentric sentiments which the rest of Nigeria had set in motion by voting for a recycled and highly discredited Obasanjo. Tinubu was right to have dumped AD and Afenifere and that explains why no one, not even his worse critics, can accuse him of clannishess.

joyandfaith:


Not like before. Talk to people in the street. 2015 election boosted his respect because Gej was seen as a stupid man.

Now people see Tinubu and Buhari as stupid men

Nothing special about this news, because AD was the only popular and acceptable party in the Southwest then. Funsho williams would still have won landslide if he wasn't asked to step down for Tinubu.


PS: @Op, Tinubu attended Chicago state university and not university of Chicago or university Chicago state. Always try and set your record straight!

Was there PM news or even an online internet news media in 1999?

FuckSilly:
Useless man

Shey your father at home

Tinubu has never lost an election since 1993 in his Ward, Local Government, Senatorial district or Lagos State....

Idiots said AD won the election in 1999 , when actually it was AD that called on Tinubu to return from UK to fly it's flag leaving several aspirants at the primaries for Tinubu

Hate has emptied the senses of most of this mkpuru Mniri Miscreants that they don't know excellence when it faces them



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZXlie6JMk

Funsho gave him a run for his money



Infact it is said in some quarters that he rigged the 2003 elections

PrinceOfLagos:
Lagos politics is different from National politics

MC Oluomo helped Tinubu in doing the dirty works of snatching ballot boxes and maniputing election sheets and results

Enough of this Tinubu lies , we no want .

and who help ur father write weac, despite dat he got F9 parallel

porthouse7:
am who help ur father write weac, despite dat he got F9 parallel

Lol