Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu and his running mate Kassim Shettima have been elected as the president and Vice President elect of the federal republic of Nigeria .
In what appears to the country’s tightest race for the presidential seat. The election was conducted across the 36 states including the federal capital territory on Saturday 25th February 2023 and over 90 hours was spent by the independent national electoral commission to collate and announce the winner.
INEC chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu makes this announcement at 4:10am local time on Wednesday March 1st. Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes leading Atiku Abubakar PDP and Peter Obi LP with 6,984, 520 and 6,101, 533 respectively.
Bola Tinubu becomes the 7th presidential elect since elections were resumed in 1999, and the 17th overall.
Born 29th March, 1952. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a savvy politician and master strategist. He was an accountant by profession, and a former two time governor of Lagos state.
Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to the United States where he studied Accounting at Chicago State University. During his early career span, he worked as an accountant for top profile American companies; Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation. He returned to Nigeria in 1983, where he joined Mobil Oil Nigeria as an accountant, and later grew to the position of an executive in the company.
According to information that remains highly disputed, Tinubu was born on 29 March 1952 to his mother, madam Abibatu Mogaji, a trader that later became the Iyaloja of Lagos State. He attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children’s Home School in Ibadan. He left for the United States of America in 1975, where he studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago and then at Chicago State University. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
As an political activist and democrat, Tinubu became a founding member of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, a group which mobilized support for the restoration of democracy and recognition of Moshood Abiola as winner of the 12 June election. After the results of the 12 June 1993 presidential elections were annulled. Following the seizure of power by military head of state of General Sani Abacha, he went into exile in 1994 and returned to the country in 1998 after the death of the military dictator, which ushered in the transition to the Fourth Nigerian Republic.
Tinubu has been elected as president under the All Progressive Congress. He ran his campaign with a eighty page manifesto consisting of 8 points; national security, economy, agriculture, power, oil and gas, transportation and education.
He campaigned on the promise of delivering a renewed hope to the Nigerian populace, as the country battles a worsening economic situation and serious security crises following an 8 year rule by the All Progressive Congress, under president Muhammadu Buhari.
BAT as he is popularly called, is being touted to succeed and fulfill on his promises based on his 8 year rule in Lagos, where he was credited to have created new roads and made large investments in education.
BAT is married to Senator Oluremi Tinubu with five children.
More to come.
