Billionaire businessman Bola Tinubu the candidate for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to promise exchange rate reform and to eliminate the costly fuel subsidy...
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The location of the fields on offer deep offshore and south of the commercial capital is being promoted by the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission as ideal for the Lagos export-free zone a project closely linked to former governor of Lagos state Bola Tinubu who is now standing as presidential candidate for the ruling All Progressives' Congress...
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The multi-billion dollar campaign platforms launched in the week-ending 22 October of the presidential candidates from the two biggest parties Bola Tinubu for the ruling All Progressives' Congress and Atiku Abubakar for the People's Democratic Party have met with widespread scepticism from voters and civil society organisations...
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Political grandees are backing either Bola Ahmed Tinubu or Atiku Abubakar respectively the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
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He has met with Peter Obi as well as the APC's presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria and in Europe...
The establishment insists that Obi stands no chance against the two main parties' septuagenarian candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar veteran politicians who each have at least a hundred times more wealth at their disposal than Obi (AC Vol 63 No 15 Presidential race tightens after flagbearers pick running mates)...
The longest-ever presidential election campaign in Nigerian history is into its next more intense phase after the three leading candidates – Atiku Abubakar Peter Obi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu – have named their running mates...
A month after their emergence as presidential candidates the economic programmes of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar extolling the virtues of untrammelled market economics face more serious scrutiny than their chequered business histories (AC Vol 63 No 12 Rival parties set up a battle of the oligarchs)...
Bola Ahmed Tinubu 70 won the APC's presidential primaries on 8 June setting up a showdown in February with former Vice-President Atiku Abukabar 76 another plutocrat and veteran campaigner (AC Vol 63 No 12 Rival parties set up a battle of the oligarchs) While Tinubu a political godfather in the south-west secured the backing of about 55% of party delegates beating former Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo his path to victory wasn't guaranteed...
They shut down trading at Alaba market in Lagos one of the biggest in the country to allow the workers to register and have used similar tactics across the south-south and south-east always targeting those younger voters unimpressed by the front-running candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar...
The ease with which Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar defeated their rivals to win their parties' presidential nominations for next February's elections highlights their similarities – super-rich politicians who have spent three decades building up their national networks...
That could be a particular problem for Bola Tinubu whose base in Lagos state has the biggest bloc of registered voters in the country but one of the lowest turnouts sometimes under 20%...
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