Bola Tinubu Bio, Net Worth and How He got his Money
President-elect of Nigeria
Assuming office
29 May 2023
Vice President Kashim Shettima (elect)
Succeeding Muhammadu Buhari
12th Governor of Lagos State
In office
29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007
Deputy Kofoworola Bucknor
Femi Pedro
Preceded by Buba Marwa
Succeeded by Babatunde Fashola
Senator for Lagos West
In office
5 December 1992 – 17 November 1993
Succeeded by Wahab Dosunmu (1999)
Bio
Name Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu aka Jagaban
29 March 1952 (age 71)
Lagos, British Nigeria
Political party All Progressives Congress
(2013–present)
Spouse Oluremi Tinubu (m. 1987)​
Relations Wale Tinubu (nephew)
Children 6, including Folashade
Parent
Abibatu Mogaji (mother)
Bola Ahmed Tinubu started his education when he attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and also Children’s Home School in Ibadan attended.
In 1975 Tinubu went to USA where he first attended Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois, and then proceeded to the Chicago State University where he graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
Alma mater
Richard J. Daley College
Chicago State University (BS)
Occupation
Politician / accountant
His net worth around $9 billion and increasing
 How He got his Money
Tinubu worked for the American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and GTE Services Corporation. After returning to Nigeria in 1983, he joined Mobil Oil Nigeria, and later became a company executive.
And other Diverse Sources.
Tinubu’s political career began in 1991, when he joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1992, he was elected to the Senate, representing the Lagos West constituency in the short-lived Nigerian Third Republic.
After the results of the 12 June 1993 presidential elections were annulled, Tinubu became a founding member of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition, a group which mobilized support for the restoration of democracy and recognition of Moshood Abiola as winner of the 12 June election. Following the seizure of power as 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.
In the run-up to the 1999 elections, Bola Tinubu was a protégé of Alliance for Democracy (AD) leaders Abraham Adesanya and Ayo Adebanjo.[10] He went on to win the AD primaries for the Lagos State governorship elections in defeating Funsho Williams and Wahab Dosunmu, a former Minister of Works and Housing.
In January 1999, he stood for the position of Governor of Lagos State on the AD ticket and was elected governor.
During his 8 years in government, Tinibu initiated new road construction, required to meet the needs of the fast-growing population of the state.[13]
Tinubu, alongside a new deputy governor, Femi Pedro, won re-election into office as governor in April 2003.
All other states in the South West fell to the People’s Democratic Party in those elections.[14] He was involved in a struggle with the Olusegun Obasanjo-controlled federal government over whether Lagos State had the right to create new Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to meet the needs of its large population. The controversy led to the federal government seizing funds meant for local councils in the state.[citation needed] During the latter part of his term in office, he was engaged in continuous clashes with PDP powers such as Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Lagos State senator who had become minister of works, and Bode George, the southwest chairman of the PDP.
Relations between Tinubu and deputy governor Femi Pedro became increasingly tense after Pedro declared his intention to run for the gubernatorial elections. Pedro competed to become the AC candidate for governor in the 2007 elections, but withdrew his name on the eve of the party nomination. He defected to the Labour Party while still keeping his position as deputy governor. Tinubu’s tenure as Lagos State Governor ended on 29 May 2007, when his successor Babatunde Fashola of the Action Congress took office. wikipedia
In 2006, Tinubu attempted to persuade the then-vice president of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar to become the head of his party, the Action Congress (AC). Abubakar who was a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had recently fallen out with President Olusegun Obasanjo over Abubakar’s ambition to succeed Obasanjo as president. Tinubu offered Abubakar the chance to switch parties and join the AC, offering him the his party’s presidential candidacy, with the condition that he, Tinubu, would be Atiku Abubakar’s running mate. Atiku declined the proposition and, having switched to the AC, chose a running mate from the South East, Senator Ben Obi. Although Atiku ran for office on Tinubu’s platform in the election, the PDP still won, in a landslide.
In 2009, following the landslide victory of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 2007 elections, Tinubu became involved in negotiations to bring together the fragmented opposition parties into a “mega-party” capable of challenging the then ruling PDP.
In February 2013, Tinubu was among several politicians who created a “mega opposition” party with the merger of Nigeria’s three biggest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP (nPDP), a faction of the then ruling People’s Democratic Party– into the All Progressives Congress (APC).[22]
In 2014, Tinubu supported former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari, leader of the CPC faction of the APC – who commanded widespread following in Northern Nigeria, and had previously contested in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections as the CPC presidential candidate.[23] Tinubu initially wanted to become Buhari’s vice presidential candidate but later conceded for Yemi Osibanjo, his ally and former commissioner of justice.[24] In 2015, Buhari rode the APC to victory, ending the 16-year rule of the PDP, and marking the first time an incumbent Nigerian president lost to an opposition candidate.
Tinubu went on to play an important role in the Buhari administration, supporting government policies and holding onto the internal party reins, in lieu of his long-held rumored presidential aspiration.
In 2019, he supported Buhari’s re-election campaign defeating the PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Won the Nigerian 2023 Presidential Election
