Elizabeth O.
Tinubu wins Lagos Island Local govt area, polls 27, 760 votes
INEC results from Lagos Island Local govt area
Total no. of registered voters: 200, 048
Total no. of accredited voters: 34, 989
- A- 18
- AA- 06
- AAC-044
- ADC- 168
- ADP- 063
- APC- 27, 760
- APGA- 034
- APM- 07
- APP- 06
- BP- 012
- LP- 3058
- NNPP- 079
- NRM- 05
- PDP- 2521
- PRP- 03
- SDP- 08
- YPP- 020
- ZLP- 074
valid votes: 33, 886
Rejected votes: 1052
Total votes cast, 34, 938
WHO IS TINUBU?
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.
In the first post-transition Lagos State gubernatorial election, Tinubu won by a wide margin as a member of the Alliance for Democracy over the Peoples Democratic Party‘s Dapo Sarumi and the All People’s Party‘s Nosirudeen Kekere-Ekun.
And Four years later, he won re-election to a second term over the PDP’s Funsho Williams by a reduced margin.
However, Tinubu’s two terms were marked by attempts at modernizing the city of Lagos and his feuds with the PDP-controlled federal government.
Upon leaving office in 2007, he since played a key role in the formation of the All Progressives Congress in 2013.
Long and controversial, Tinubu’s career has been plagued by accusations of corruption and questions about the veracity of his personal history
