The two main candidates – Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ACN and General Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC – are prickly characters and their last cooperation talks fell apart just before the 2011 polls amid claims of double-dealing and betrayal (AC Vol 52 No 1 Electric elections)...
However the brothers are back in Nigeria welcomed as legitimate investors by former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu (see Feature No visible means of support) and current Governor Babatunde Fashola...
Bola Ahmed Tinubu former Lagos State Governor is close enough to President John Mahama to have invited him as guest of honour to his star-studded 60th birthday party in Lagos in April...
Ribadu says his campaign was undermined by a back-room deal between Jonathan and the ACN eminence grise Bola Tinubu...
His brief is to rally support in his Yoruba-speaking region and regain ground taken by the Action Congress of Nigeria led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu...
ACN leader Bola Tinubu – whose relations with Bakare have been tense since the presidential election when talks for an ACN-CPC coalition fell through – stayed away from the fuel subsidy protests and maintained an unusually low profile during the period...
The former Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu does not bother with false modesty...
Asiawaju Bola Tinubu James Ibori and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha stand at extremes on the spectrum of life after Government House (see Feature Governors on top and on trial)...
For the south-west the new king-maker is Obasanjo’s sworn enemy Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ACN...
A showdown is expected in the Lagos Central senatorial race between Oluremi Tinubu wife of ACN baron Bola Tinubu and Yemisi Ransome-Kuti the late Fela Kuti’s cousin and matriarch of the Kuti family who is standing on the ticket of the Social Democratic Mega Party...