Bola Tinubu
Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress. He had previously served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007. He is also a former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and the Nigerian Senate.
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Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress. He had previously served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007. He was born on 29 March 1952 in Osun State, Nigeria. His mother, Abibatu Mogaji, was a trader that later became the Iyaloja oflagos. He attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children’s Home School in Ibadan, South West of Nigeria. He studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois, and then at Chicago State University. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He worked for the American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation. After returning to Nigeria in 1983, he joined Mobil Oil Nigeria, and later became an executive of the company. 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, he was a protégé of Alliance for Democracy leaders Abraham Adesanya and Ayo Adebanjo. In April 2007, his successor Babatunde Fashola of the Action Congress took office. In March 2009, the Federal Government brought him before the Code of Conduct Bureau for trial over the alleged illegal operation of 16 foreign accounts. He has since been cleared of charges of conspiracy, money laundering, abuse of office and corruption in relation to a network of V-mobile shares in 2004. He is also a former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and the Nigerian Senate. He served as Lagos West constituency in the short-lived Nigerian Third Republic.
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