Bola Tinubu

Chief Bola Tinubu GCFR
Official portrait, 2023
16th President of Nigeria
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2023
Vice President	Kashim Shettima
Preceded by	Muhammadu Buhari
Minister of Petroleum Resources
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 August 2023
President	Himself
Preceded by	Muhammadu Buhari
12th Governor of Lagos State
In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2007
Deputy	Kofoworola Bucknor Femi Pedro Abiodun Ogunleye
Preceded by	Buba Marwa
Succeeded by	Babatunde Fashola
Member of the Nigerian Senate for Lagos West
In office 5 December 1992 – 17 November 1993
Succeeded by	Wahab Dosunmu (1999)
Personal details
Born	Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (1952-03-29) 29 March 1952 (age 72) Lagos, British Nigeria
Political party	All Progressives Congress (2013–present)
Other political affiliations	Social Democratic Party (1992–1993) Alliance for Democracy (1998–2006) Action Congress of Nigeria (2006–2013)
Spouse	Remi Tinubu ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	6
Relatives	Abibatu Mogaji (mother) Wale Tinubu (nephew)
Education	Richard J. Daley College Chicago State University (BS)
Website	State House website

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the 16th president of Nigeria since 2023.^[1] He was previously the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic.

Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to the United States where he studied accounting at Chicago State University. He returned to Nigeria in the 1980s and was employed by Mobil Nigeria as an accountant, before entering politics as a Lagos West senatorial candidate in 1992 under the banner of the Social Democratic Party. After the military dictator Sani Abacha dissolved the Senate in 1993, Tinubu went into exile and became an activist campaigning for the return of democracy as a part of the National Democratic Coalition movement.

In the first post-transition Lagos State gubernatorial election, Tinubu won by a wide margin as a member of the Alliance for Democracy. Four years later, he won re-election to a second term. After leaving office in 2007, he played a key role in the formation of the All Progressives Congress in 2013. In 2023, he was elected president of Nigeria.