Bola Tinubu - The Kingmaker Becomes Nigeria's President, 16th Leader PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
After he joined the Peoples Front, a political movement headed by Shehu Yar'adua, a retired general and former chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters, in 1992, the President-elect, , 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. From 1994 to 1998, Mr Tinubu and other NADECO activists operated outside the country, particularly in the UK and the US. Following the death of Mr Abacha in 1998, and the later pronouncement of pardon by Abdulsalam Abubakar, most of the activists, including Mr Tinubu returned to the country.
On the age discrepancy, his lawyer, Femi Falana, argued that the date of birth on the school transcript was an honest mistake – adding that an honest mistake is not a sufficient ground for"forgery or perjury". Mr Tinubu was subsequently cleared by the State House of Assembly.
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