Mr Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, will be inaugurated as president and vice president today.
, spent the next two years working for two men — Mr Yar’adua and Moshood Abiola — to become Nigeria’s president. But the two never made it.
This date of birth is also controversial. His transcript from Chicago State University has 1954 as his year of birth. In August 1999, this discrepancy was a subject of a probe by the Lagos State House of Assembly following a petition filed by the duo of Jameed Seriki and Waliu Balogun-Smith. The petition raised the discrepancy of date of birth on the academic transcript and the age filled in his INEC form.
Mr Tinubu, in an interview with TheNews, provided insight into how he left Nigeria in 1975. While the interview left out his academic record before then, he explained how he left the country with his friend, Bolaji Agaba for New York in 1975. Around 1986, he joined Mobil at the Corporate Audit Department in the UK where he served as corporate auditor. Within that period, he was assigned to audit Mobil Nigeria. It was during the assignment in Nigeria that he was offered the role of Auditor in Nigeria. Hence, he moved from Mobil UK to Mobil Nigeria. He rose through the ranks in the oil firm to become its treasurer.
In the short-lived third Senate, he made an attempt to emerge as the Senate President, but the South-west agenda for the presidency made him step down and backed Iyorchia Ayu, the suspended national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party , for the position. To get that ticket, he had to defeat Funsho Williams and Kofo Bucknor-Akerele. Following the primaries, he picked Mrs Bucknor-Akerele, and with the ticket, the battle was against a former member of the Peoples Front, Mr Sarumi. The AD won the election.
The Legal Attache to the US consulate, Michael Bonner, had in response to a letter from Mr Balogun, stated that Mr Tinubu had no record of criminal indictment or prosecution.
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