Abuja, Nigeria//-Ahmed Bola Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) today sworn in as the Nigeria’s new president.
He took the oath of office from Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola at a colourful ceremony attended by local and foreign dignitaries including Presidents of West Africa, Africa and across the globe in Abuja, the capital.
The new president, the fifth since the return of democracy in 1999, will have to tackle a struggling economy and widespread insecurity in Africa’s most populous country.
His supporters say he will replicate his success in diversifying Lagos’s tax revenue and increasing its internally generated revenue to the national stage.
But critics say he enriched himself during two terms in office as governor and got his cronies in government to assign him an enormous pension after exiting power. In the run-up to the 2023 vote, there were questions about his wealth, his health – as he slurred during speeches – and his academic credentials.
Tinubu, also a former senator, aided Buhari’s rise to the presidency in 2015 as he defeated the incumbent president at the time to make history.
African Eye Report/Al Jazeera
