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#NigeriaElections2023: Tinubu leads in two LGAs, as results collation begins in Rivers
Of the results so far collated, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won in two of the three local government areas so far released.
The local governments are Ahoada West, Tai and Opobo/Nkoro.
The APC won in Tai and Opobo/Nkoro, while the Labour Party won in Ahoada West
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West during the brief Third Republic. In June 2022, he was chosen as the All Progressives Congress nominee in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election.
Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to United States where he studied Accounting at Chicago State University.
He returned to Nigeria in the early 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 dictator Sani Abacha dissolved the Senate in 1993, Tinubu became an activist campaigning for the return of democracy as a part of the National Democratic Coalition movement.
Although he was forced into exile in 1994, Tinubu returned after Abacha’s 1998 death triggered the beginning of the transition to the Fourth Republic.[
