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The new government due to take office at the end of this month faces a dizzying array of financial and political challenges including questions about the health of its leader Bola Tinubu who has just returned to Abuja after a month's break in Paris...
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The opening gambit of Bola Tinubu's Presidency has been played – almost two months before he moves into the villa at Aso Rock...
Seemingly unworried about such questioning of his legitimacy the APC's Presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu jetted off to Paris for a medical check-up last week...
It is a return match this time through proxies for the presidential election in which the godfather of Lagos politics Bola Tinubu was handed his first electoral defeat at the hands of Obi...
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That may trigger a counter-claim by the ruling All Progressives' Congress (APC) whose presidential candidate Bola Tinubu was announced the winner on 1 March (AC Vol 64 No 5 Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi)...
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At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...
Older and more conservative voters are said to favour the veteran candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose official age is 70 of the ruling All Progressives' Congress or Atiku Abubakar 76 of the opposition People's Democratic Party...
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Festus Keyamo communications director for Bola Tinubu's presidential campaign said the ruling party's candidate had won comfortably – having secured a plurality of votes and 25% of the votes in two-thirds of the 36 states – according to results submitted to the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
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Whatever the merits of his eight-year rule President Muhammadu Buhari had seemed emotionally disengaged from the election and unconcerned about whether his All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerge victorious (AC Vol 64 No 3 Economic woes test voter loyalties)...
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The roots of this emergency – zero per capita growth massive unemployment major revenue losses from oil theft the hefty cost of fuel subsidies above-20% inflation and a fast-growing debt burden – should logically weaken the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress's (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu...
Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...