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Bolanle Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (Bola Tinubu)

Date of Birth: 29 March 1952
Place of Birth: Lagos


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Health checks

There are some sceptics who question the level of trust between the two men not least because Osinbajo a former Attorney General in Lagos State was the choice of Bola Ahmed Tinubu the mercurial godfather of south-western politics and a former Governor of Lagos State...


Jammeh's long goodbye

The Nigerian newspaper The Nation claimed the aircraft belongs to Bola Tinubu a leader of the governing All Progressives' Congress a former Governor of Lagos state – and owner of The Nation...


Grandees test the water

The victory of Rotimi Akeredolu candidate of the governing All Progressives' Congress (APC) in the Ondo State governorship election on 26 November has strong national resonance in the battle of wills between President Muhammadu Buhari and the south-west region's godfather Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu...

Bola Tinubu backed Chief Olusola Oke who had defected from the APC to contest for the Alliance for Democracy a party with which Tinubu has historic links...


Political schisms hit recovery and reform

Businessmen in Lagos who are close to Bola Tinubu the redoubtable political godfather and the APC's Chairman in the south-west complain that Buhari gives priority to fighting corruption and to economic nationalism over the need for urgent measures to revive the economy...

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Buhari's kitchen cabinet

Newspapers linked to Bola Tinubu a leading figure in the ruling All Progressives' Congress have been in the forefront of the media plugging the 'cabal' narrative...


Railroading senators

There is a split in APC ranks between backers of Abubakar Bukola Saraki Senate President and ex-Governor of Kwara State and of Bola Tinubu Lagos State ex-Governor and veteran political kingpin in the south-west...


Big tests beckon for Buhari

Another figure to watch in the APC constellation will be former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu who is still the party's godfather in the south-west...

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Fighting graft, Buhari-style

Political critics say that in the absence of a new government power over the EFCC has been ceded to the APC especially to former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is said to be extremely close to the Director of Operations Olaolu Adegbite a former Chief Superintendent of Police...

The allegation that it was Bola Ahmed Tinubu that instigated this EFCC issue with Saraki's wife carries weight...


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