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...
The ACN in the south-west is the party of Bola Tinubu the former Governor of Lagos State who handed power to his cousin Fashola...
Both sides would have to take into account the views of Bola Ahmed Tinubu an unpredictable operator who remains a key financier and powerbroker in the ACN...
Its political heavyweights include Bola Ahmed Tinubu ex-Governor of Lagos and chief of the AC; Ghali Na'abba ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives; John Oyegun ex-Governor of Edo State; and Ben Obi the AC's 2007 vice-presidential candidate...