Happy Birthday to an example of a technocrat as political hero. From all of us at COSGABAT.
Celebration of a visionary and strategic leader by the COALITION OF SUPPORT GROUPS FOR ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU (COSGABAT)
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress. He was Lagos State Governor from 1999 to 2007.
Early life
Tinubu was born on 29 March 1952 in Osun State, Nigeria. His mother, Abibatu Mogaji, was a trader that later became the Iyaloja of Lagos.
Education
He attended St. John's Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children's Home School in Ibadan, South West of Nigeria. Tinubu then went to the United States in 1975, where he studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois, and then at Chicago State University. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
Early profession
Tinubu worked for the American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation.[3] After returning to Nigeria in 1983, Bola Tinubu joined Mobil Oil Nigeria, and later became an executive of the organization.
Governor of Lagos State
When he assumed office in May 1999, Tinubu promised 10,000 housing gadgets for the poor with little finished. During the 8-yr period of his being in office, he made huge investments in training within the kingdom and also reduced the quantity of faculties within the state through returning many colleges to the already settled former owners. He additionally initiated new road creation, required to fulfill the wishes of the short-developing population of the nation.
Tinubu, along a new deputy governor, Femi Pedro, received re-election into office as governor in April 2003. All different states inside the South West fell to the People's Democratic Party in those elections. He changed into worried in a war with the Olusegun Obasanjo-managed federal government over whether or not Lagos State had the proper to create new Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to fulfill the desires of its huge population. The controversy led to the federal government seizing price range meant for local councils inside the state. During the latter a part of his time period in office, he was engaged in continuous clashes with PDP powers inclusive of Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Lagos State senator who had turn out to be minister of works, and Bode George, the southwest chairman of the PDP.
Relations among Tinubu and deputy governor Femi Pedro have become more and more tense after Pedro declared his aim to run for the gubernatorial elections. Pedro competed to grow to be the AC candidate for governor in the 2007 elections, but withdrew his name on the eve of the birthday celebration nomination. He defected to the Labour Party even as still retaining his role as deputy governor. Tinubu's tenure as Lagos State Governor ended on 29 May 2007, while his successor Babatunde Fashola of the Action Congress took workplace.
Personal lifestyles
He is a Muslim. Tinubu is married to Oluremi Tinubu, the modern Senator of the Lagos Central Senatorial District. His nephew, Adewale Tinubu is the CEO of Oando Plc. His mom, Chief Abibatu Mogaji, died on the 15th of June 2014, on the age of 96. On the thirty first of October 2017, his son Jide Tinubu had a coronary heart assault at the same time as in London and was later showed useless.
No comments:
Post a Comment