RACE TO 2023 PRESIDENCY: BOLA AHMED TINUBU

On Monday, January 10th, 2022, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a highly anticipated move, informed reporters of his decision to run for the presidency in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The political behemoth revealed this after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. His declaration has since elicited different reactions from Nigerians across the socio-political space.

So who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Below are “10 Must Knows” about the one popularly known as the Jagaban:

1. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim and was born on 29th March, 1952.

2. He graduated top of his class, with B.Sc in Accounting from Chicago State University in 1979.

3. Before his foray into politics, he had worked for companies like American Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, GTE Services Corporation and Mobil Oil Nigeria.

4. An elected senator in the short lived Nigerian Third Republic in 1993, Tinubu contributed to the establishment of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in 1994; a coalition of Nigerian democrats who pressured the then military government to reinstate the June 12, 1993 election results and restore democracy.

5. He was elected as executive governor of Lagos State from 1999 – 2007.

6. In 2014, Tinubu founded the Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) Foundation, a non-governmental organisation focused on “breaking the shackles of poverty”. The organisation has made several donations to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, orphanages, widows, etc.

7. He is currently a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, having played a major role in successfully negotiating the merger of three of Nigeria’s leading opposition parties in 2013, successfully ousting the then ruling party in the 2015 presidential election.

8. In April 2007, Tinubu was brought before the Code of Conduct Bureau for trial over the alleged illegal operation of 16 separate foreign accounts. However, he was cleared of all charges by the EFCC in 2009.

9. Groups have petitioned the EFCC to investigate him after bullion vans were seen driving into his residence a day before the 2019 presidential election with a large crowd of supporters waiting outside, to which he retorted; “I can keep money anywhere I want.”

10. Tinubu holds both the chieftaincies of the Asiwaju of Lagos and the Jagaban of Borgu Kingdom in Niger State, Nigeria. He is happily married to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, with children.

QUOTE:

Education is the greatest weapon against poverty; we cannot innovate without education. We need a leader that is a thinker and a doer.

- Bola Tinubu

Na OUK we will vote

APC.
This is the year of infrastructure... We will commission Second Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan expressway, we will finish Ajaokuta-Kano gas pipeline, we will commission Lekki deep sea port and Badagry port... We will use projects to choke PDP this year.

I can keep money anywhere I want...Typical Jagaban

BELIEVE NOT IN THY CHARMS O BRUTUS. BOURDILLON HOUSE HAS MOVED. GOD IS IN CONTROL NOW.

Here is another potential candidate with political experience. He is poised for victory.

Man of the people!
We are still consulting

God bless Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.