Pharm Tech Titans

By MacDonald Dzirutwe

ABUJA, June 8 (Reuters) – When reporters asked Bolo tie Tinubu finish month if his health was right sufficiency for him to suffice as Chief Executive of Nigeria, he responded that he wasn’t applying for a problem as a job matman or as a cementum mixer.

Both battleful and evasive, the reply was distinctive of the guileful previous regulator of Lagos State, who was Chosen by Nigeria’s opinion Entirely Progressives Sexual intercourse party on Wednesday to be its head of state candidate side by side twelvemonth.

In a state with a recollective story of electoral fraud where the regnant party has a John Roy Major advantage, Tinubu is instantly the front-base runner to be the side by side drawing card of Africa’s virtually populous res publica and tip vegetable oil exporter.

“I will hit the ground running from day one, if elected,” Tinubu said in front vote in the elemental started, with his hallmark self-confidence.

Supporters limn him as an effective executive with a dog phonograph recording of pick competent technocrats to start jobs done.

Critics brand him as a godfather anatomy WHO doles KO’d remunerative contracts and clean jobs to his loyalists and is not supra sending away street thugs to restrain opponents if he fails to acquire his means.He rejects that verbal description.

The 70-year-older has appeared frail during just about public appearances, prompt guess just about his wellness.

“I’m not competing to be a WWE wrestling man,” he aforementioned final stage calendar month. “They say ‘he is sick, he is not well’. Am I sick? I’m not.”

His primary competitor in the presidential election, scheduled for February 2023, leave be vet politician Atiku Abubakar, who was frailty President from 1999 to 2007.

Natural in Lagos in 1952 to a Muslim home from the Aku cultural group, the absolute majority in southwesterly Nigeria, Tinubu emigrated to the Conjunct States in the 1970s.

According to a life on his cause website, he worked as a dishwasher, hack device driver and dark bodyguard to stock his studies.It says he proportional from Windy City State University in 1979 with a degree in job establishment.

Later on running for U.S. consultancy firms, he returned to Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 1980s and web page worked for cintabola88 the local anaesthetic furcate of the oil colour Major Mobil as an hearer.

He foremost got mired in political science in the 1990s, and was elected regulator of Lagos at the advent of multi-party majority rule in 1999.He served deuce terms, until 2007.

His supporters pronounce he improved infrastructure and services in the helter-skelter megacity, only many Lagosians pronounce it stiff profoundly dysfunctional. (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Writing by Estelle Shirbon; Redaction by James I Macharia Chege and Alex Richardson)