Ten things you probably didnt know about Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu

Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was on Wednesday declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election.

The 70-year-old veteran politician got 36% of the vote, official results show. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner, the Premium Times of Nigeria reported.

He also scored over 25% of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.

Tinubu’s main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29% (a total of 6,984,520 votes), and Labour’s Peter Obi 25% (a total of 6,101,533 votes). Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a sham, and demanded a rerun, the BBC reported

Here are a list of 10 interesting things you probably didn’t know about the president-elect: 

1. Bola Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 on the platform of Alliance for Democracy (AD)
2. He is a founding member of the pre-democracy National Democratic Coalition (NADECO)
3. He participated in the formation of the All-Progressive Congress (APC) in February 2013.
4. The former Lagos State governor holds the traditional titles of Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban of Borgu Kingdom in Niger State
5. Tinubu declared his presidential ambition for the 2023 general election on 10 January 2022.
6. He is 70 years old -born in Lagos on March 29, 1952
7. Tinubu is a United States trained accountant and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
8.  He was elected senator in 1992 under the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
9. He is married to Senator Oluremi Tinubu and they both have three children, Oluwaseyi, Abibat and Folashade.
10. Tinubu won the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential ticket at a hotly contested primaries on 8 June, 2022 at the Eagle Square in Abuja.

Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra

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