Bola Tinubu Biography
Bola Tinubu is a politician and accountant from Nigeria. During the brief Third Republic, he was Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West. He was selected as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the 2023 Nigerian presidential election in June 2022.
Bola Tinubu Age
He is 70 years old as of 2022. He was born Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu on 29 March 1952 in Lagos, Nigeria. e celebrates his birtday on 29 March.
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Bola Tinubu Family
Abibatu Mogaji, his mother, was a trader who later became Lagos State’s Iyaloja. Abibatu Mogaji, Tinubu’s mother, passed away on June 15, 2013, at the age of 96.
Bola Tinubu Wife
His wife Oluremi Tinubu, is the senator representing the Lagos Central senatorial district. His son, Jide Tinubu, suffered a heart attack in London on October 31, 2017, and it was later determined that he had passed away.
Bola Tinubu Education
He went to Children’s Home School in Ibadan and St. John’s Primary School in Aroloya, Lagos. In 1975, Tinubu left for the United States, where he attended Richard J. Daley College in Chicago and Chicago State University, respectively. He received his bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1979.
Bola Tinubu Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of N50 million.
Bola Tinubu Running Mate
Tinubu worked in 2006 to persuade Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President of Nigeria, to become the party’s flagbearer. Atiku, who was a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the time, had a disagreement with Olusegun Obasanjo, his principal at the time, over his desire to become president. Atiku accepted Tinubu’s invitation to join his party by accepting the position of presidential candidate on the condition that he serve as Atiku’s running mate. Ben Obi, a running mate from the South East, was Atiku’s choice instead of the proposal. And despite the fact that Atiku continued to run for office on Tinubu’s platform in the upcoming elections, the PDP still prevailed in a landslide, indicating that Tinubu was barking up the wrong tree.
Bola Tinubu Drug Lord
Tinubu was employed by Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, GTE Services Corporation, and other American firms. Tinubu joined Mobil Oil Nigeria upon his return to Nigeria in 1983, where he later rose to executive status.
Before federal authorities began an investigation, Tinubu was noted for his suspiciously high income while he was living in the United States. After a court case asserted that the American government had “probable cause” to believe Tinubu’s American bank accounts held the proceeds of heroin dealing, his assets were eventually frozen in 1993. Later that year, he would settle with the government and forfeit approximately $460,000. In the early 1990s, court records and subsequent reporting on the case revealed that Tinubu had worked as a bagman for two Chicago heroin dealers.
Bola Tinubu Campaign
After despot Sani Abacha broke down the Senate in 1993, Tinubu turned into extremist lobbying for the arrival of a majority rules government as a piece of the Public Popularity-based Alliance development. Despite being forced into exile in 1994, Tinubu returned after Abacha’s death in 1998 signaling the beginning of the Fourth Republic’s transition.
Bola Tinubu Accusations
The Federal Government brought Tinubu before the Code of Conduct Bureau in April 2007 for trial over the alleged illegal operation of 16 separate foreign accounts. This occurred after the general elections but before the governor-elect Babatunde Fashola took office. In relation to a 2004 sale of V-mobile network shares, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission cleared Tinubu, governors James Ibori of Delta State and Obong Victor Attah of Akwa Ibom State, of charges of conspiracy, money laundering, abuse of office, and official corruption. There were rumors in March 2009 that a plan to kill Tinubu had been found. The Alliance for Democracy requested that Mike Okiro, the Inspector General of Police, carry out an in-depth investigation.
However, in September 2009, it was reported that the British Metropolitan Police were looking into a deal in which the Lagos State government invested in Econet, which is now Airtel. Tinubu claimed that there were no middlemen involved in the transaction, which was straightforward and profitable for the state. A request from Britain for the Federal Government to release evidence necessary for a London court’s further investigation and prosecution of the three Nigerian ex-governors was turned down by the Federal Government.
Many people consider Tinubu to be the “Godfather of Lagos.” The Lion of Bourdillon, a 2015 documentary that highlighted Tinubu’s political and financial hold on the city-state, revealed his role in pulling the strings of the megacity-state. The documentary ceased airing on March 6, 2015, after Tinubu filed a libel suit against the producers and AIT for 150 billion yen. However, there are precedents, such as his domineering behavior toward successors, such as in December 2009, when it was reported that Fashola and Tinubu had argued over Fashola’s re-election in 2011, with Tinubu favoring Muiz Banire, the commissioner for the environment.
In 2015, Tinubu and Akinwunmi Ambode got into a similar fight over who would succeed Fashola. Tinubu backed Ambode wholeheartedly, but Ambode was ousted from office by Tinubu and replaced by incumbent Babajide Sanwo-Olu. A bullion van was seen entering Tinubu’s residence on Bourdillion Road in Ikoyi during the 2019 election. Tinubu stated, “I keep money wherever I want.”