Dele Alake, director of strategic communication in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, says Bola Tinubu, the party’s flagbearer, made his money from buying stocks in blue chip companies.

Alake spoke on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television.

Ahead of the 2023 elections, the source of Tinubu’s wealth has again come under scrutiny.

Commenting on the matter, Alake said the former Lagos governor was not a “pauper” before he become a senator in 1992.

“I knew him to have been spending money ever before he got to office. In 1991, he was going into politics, he contested a senatorial election — Lagos west — and he won,” he said.

“Most Nigerians know that contesting elections in Nigeria is not a child’s play. Paupers don’t contest elections. How much more a senatorial election?

“He must be a man of some means. In fact, before then, he had been contributing to political organisations and causes before he took up the gauntlet and went into the senate.

“He polled the highest number of votes nationwide in that senatorial election of that year and became a senator in 1992.

“Fast forward to 1993, we started the June 12, he was in the Yar’Adua’s caucus — the Peoples Font — within SDP at that time. He was also funding. He was not a pauper.”

Alake said those questioning Tinubu’s source of wealth are expressing the “hatred” they have for the former Lagos governor.

“What I know is that right from his days in the corporate world, he has been trading in stocks even in foreign currencies,” he added.

“He has been buying stocks, bonds and all of that. I’m not a finance person. I’m not going to be interested in the nitty-gritty of it all.

“But I know he has been trading in stocks. He was buying stocks of blue chip companies and all of that. He was making money and spending money. He has been doing all of these years before he got to office.

“Why people are querying his source of wealth is because he had been a successful governor of Lagos and a successful politician even after office.

“He is about the only one of the class of 1999 who is at that enviable height, politically. He is bound to attract all of these negative comments.”

Corridon:
Another tale by moonlight. Same way they told us he is a major shareholder in Manchester united. Tinubu is a mysterious man that no one knows about his pasts.

madridguy:
Have you contacted MAN UTD management to confirm the news ?

madridguy:
Have you contacted MAN UTD management to confirm the news ?

Corridon:
Yes and they denied it.

dre11:
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https://www.thecable.ng/dele-alake-tinubu-not-a-pauper-before-politics-he-made-money-from-buying-stocks/amp

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BurialGround:


We'll do that once his urinated clothes get dry

Kagd10:
We know..

When it comes to top investment. Leave it for Tinubu. That's his Field hence why he was able to float Lagos despite OBJ seizing Lagos allocation for several years.

OneCandleAway:


You won't stop this allocation lie.

That's why your Agbado master won't win. Too much lies.

Kagd10:


Say the Yeye armchair saying gibberish from the comfort of his room as if he knew anything. Why don't you go tell your gibberish to Osinbajo who mentioned it recently? You dey mad?

OneCandleAway:


You're the one running mad creating threads upandan on why the north wants to betray Tinubu after he gave them the northern Muslim VP they requested for.

Now hurry up and go change Tinubus diaper