INEC, on 1 March, declared Mr Tinubu, candidate of the ruling APC, as the winner of the 25 February presidential election.
will be sworn in today as Nigeria's 16th leader since the country's independence in 1960.Both will be succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo whose second four-year term lapses today.The Independent National Electoral Commission , on 1 March, declared Mr Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the 25 February presidential election. He defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election after polling 8,794,726 votes.
Mr Tinubu, 71, will be inaugurated as the fifth president of the current Fourth Republic which began in 1999. He served as governor of Lagos State, the country's economic hub, between 1999 and 2007. An accountant by profession, Mr Tinubu had previously served as a senator in the short-lived Third Republic.
Today's ceremony, the 7th consecutive transition of power, holds at 10 a.m., according to the Presidential Transition Committee constituted by the outgoing Buhari administration to midwife the transition programme. Previous presidents' inaugurations were held in the same facility. The facility has since undergone renovation in preparation for today's Inauguration.
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