Bola Tinubu, an APC presidential candidate, has informed his supporters that it is disrespectful to bring up the name of PDP deputy governor candidate for Lagos and superactress Funke Akindele in his presence.
At a political event on Wednesday, November 2, where his followers performed a campaign song, Tinubu referred to Funke Akindele as a political "ant" in comparison to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State and the APC's candidate for governor in the state.
The APC candidate for president said;
"Who is Lagos' Sanwo-Olu before Funke Akindele? As an ant, she is.
"Don't even think of bringing her up in front of me. It is offensive. It shows disdain.
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Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West during the brief Third Republic. He was selected as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the 2023 Nigerian presidential election in June 2022.
Tinubu was born and raised in the southwest of Nigeria. After moving to the United States, he attended Chicago State University to study accounting. After moving back to Nigeria in the early 1980s, he worked as an accountant for Mobil Nigeria before joining politics in 1992 as the Social Democratic Party's candidate for the Lagos West senate seat. After the tyrannical Sani Abacha disbanded the Senate in 1993, Tinubu joined the National Democratic Coalition movement and started advocating for the restoration of democracy.
Despite being compelled into exile in 1994, Tinubu returned after Abacha's death in 1998 marked the start of the Fourth Republic.
In the first post-transition election for governor of Lagos State, Tinubu of the Alliance for Democracy defeated Dapo Sarumi of the People's Democratic Party and Nosirudeen Kekere-Ekun of the All People's Party with a sizable margin.
Four years later, he narrowly defeated Funsho Williams of the PDP to win re-election for a second term. Tinubu's two administrations were characterized by his battles with the PDP-run federal government and his attempts to modernize Lagos. He had a significant part in the creation of the All Progressives Congress in 2013 after leaving office in 2007. Tinubu's career has been long and contentious, dogged by allegations of corruption and doubts about the accuracy of his personal background.
Affidavits state that Tinubu was born on March 29, 1952. Abibatu Mogaji, his mother, was a trader who rose to become the Iyaloja of Lagos State. He attended Children's Home School in Ibadan and St. John's Primary School in Aroloya, Lagos. Later, in 1975, Tinubu traveled to the United States to pursue his studies at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College and Chicago State University. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the university in 1979.
Throughout his political career, disagreements concerning Tinubu's age, educational background, and name arose as a result of contradictory documentation and assertions from the politician himself. The primary controversy was caused by differences in certificates Tinubu gave to the Independent National Electoral Commission, despite unproven rumors that he was born in modern-day Osun State with a different name to a different family.
Tinubu responded by claiming Tokunbo Afikuyomi- who was then a senator- accidentally falsified the 1999 submission and the university had simply made an error. Tinubu's documents submitted prior to running for governor in 1999 falsely stated that Tinubu attended Government College, Ibadan for secondary school and Chicago State University records had his birth year as 1954, not 1952. In accordance with earlier sworn papers and public pronouncements, Tinubu failed to list the primary or secondary school he attended in documentation submitted to INEC for the presidential election in 2022, reigniting the debate.
The formal announcement of Tinubu's decision to run for president of Nigeria was made to President Buhari on January 10, 2022.
On June 8, 2022, Tinubu defeated Rotimi Amaechi and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with a score of 1,271 to win the ruling All Progressive Congress' presidential primary.
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