Toscad News Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952)[1] is a Nigerian accountant and politician who has been national leader of the All Progressives Congress since the party’s formation in 2013.[2] He previously served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West during the brief Third Republic.[3] In January 2022, he announced his intention to run for the APC nomination for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election.
According to Wikipedia, after spending his early life in southwestern Nigeria, Tinubu studied accounting in the United States before working abroad for several years. He returned to Nigeria in the mid-1980s and continued working in financial management before entering politics as a successful Lagos West senatorial candidate in 1992 under the banner of the Social Democratic Party. After dictator Sani Abacha dissolved the Senate in 1993, Tinubu become an activist campaigning for the return of democracy as a part of the National Democratic Coalition movement. Although he was forced into exile in 1994, Tinubu returned after Abacha’s 1998 death triggered the beginning of the transition to the Fourth Republic.
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