Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR was born on March 29, 1952 in Lagos. Tinubu is a Nigerian politician who is currently the 16th president of Nigeria.

He was the former governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and emerged as Senator for Lagos west in the Third Republic.

He attended St. John's Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos, before proceeding to Children Home School in Ibadan and later moved to the United Stated where he studied accounting at Chicago State University.

Tinubu worked at American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and GTE Service Corporation as an accountant. In 1983, he joined Mobil Oil Nigeria and later became a company executive.

In 1994, Tinubu went into exile after the seizure of power by Abacha. He returned to Nigeria in 1998 after the death of the military dictator which led to the transition to the Fourth Nigerian Republic. By 1999, Tinubu contested the Governorship election on the ticket of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) where he defeated Funsho Williams and Wahab Dosunmu.

He won his re-election into office as governor of Lagos state in 2003. Tinubu's tenure as Lagos State Governor ended on May 29, 2007 and was succeeded by Babatunde Raji Fashola.

After several years of being behind the political scene, Tinubu in February 2013, was among several politicians who created a "mega opposition" party with the merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP (nPDP), a faction of the then ruling People's Democratic Party – into the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tinubu gave his support to former military head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari in 2014, who had previously contested in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections as the CPC presidential candidate.

On January 10, 2022, Tinubu formally declared his intention to contest for president. On June 8, 2022, Tinubu won the party primaries of the ruling APC, scoring 1,271, to defeat Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Rotimi Amaechi who scored 235 and 316 respectively.

On March 1, 2023, INEC declared Tinubu winner of the 2023 presidential election. He was declared president-elect after he polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his opponents.

His runner-up Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) polled 6,984,520 votes. Labour Party's Peter Obi scored 6,101,533 votes to come third. Tinubu began his presidency on May 29, 2023.

He was sworn in as President of Nigeria by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola at 10:41am at an inauguration ceremony held at the Eagle Square in Abuja which was attended by some heads of state and dignitaries.

Tinubu was conferred with the highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) by his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, and his Vice President Kashim Shettima with the second highest honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on May 25, 2023. He is married to Oluremi Tinubu and has four children.

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