Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician serving as Nigeria's 16th president since 2023. He represented Lagos West in the Senate during the Third Republic, won the first post-transition Lagos State governorship election on the Alliance for Democracy platform, was re-elected, and governed Lagos from 1999 to 2007. After leaving office, he played a central role in the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013 and won the 2023 presidential election ahead of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.

Tinubu was born in Lagos to a Muslim Yoruba family and is the son of Abibatu Mogaji, the Iyaloja of Lagos. Sources generally accept 1952 as his birth year, though opponents have disputed the date and some accounts note that his age has not been independently verified. He attended St. John's Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos, and later Children Home School in Ibadan.

In 1975, he moved to the United States, began at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, and transferred to Chicago State University to study accounting and management. He supported himself through various jobs, made the honor dean's list, taught remedial tutorials, served as accounting society president in his senior year, graduated summa cum laude in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and later returned to Nigeria in the 1980s to work as an accountant at Mobil Nigeria. He entered politics in 1992 as an SDP candidate for Lagos West Senate and, after the Senate was dissolved in 1993, went into exile and campaigned for a return to democracy through the National Democratic Coalition.