TINUBU SWORN IN AS NIGERIA’S FIFTH PRESIDENT

Mon 29 May 2023:

Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos who is acknowledged for having contributed to the city-state’s expansion of its revenue base, has been sworn in as Nigeria’s new president.

On Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital, he took the oath of office from Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola during a colorful event that was attended by local and foreign leaders.

Tinubu, 71, succeeds Muhammadu Buhari, who was ineligible to run again after two four-year terms that began in 2015.

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.

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