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The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 [a] to elect the president and Vice President of Nigeria. [1] Bola Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 36.61% of the vote, just under 8.8 million votes to defeat over runners-up former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) and former ...
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who has served the 16th president of Nigeria since 2023. [1] He was previously the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic. Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to the United States ...
The President of Nigeria, officially the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The president directs the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and is the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The offices, powers, and titles of the head of ...
Cabinet of Muhammadu Buhari. Bola Tinubu assumed office as President of Nigeria on 29 May 2023. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation. Ministers were nominated in July, and confirmed by the senate in August 2023.
On 29 May 2015, Buhari was sworn in as President of Nigeria, becoming the first opposition figure to win a presidential election since independence in 1960. [5] On 29 May 2019, Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in for a second term as Nigeria's president, after winning the presidential election in February 2019. [6]
Ajuri Obari Ngelale (born 13 November 1986) is a Nigerian broadcast journalist and politician who served as presidential spokesman to president Bola Tinubu. [1][2][3][4][5] He previously served as presidential senior special adviser on public affairs to former president Muhammadu Buhari [6][7] and was a co-principal spokesperson of Bola Tinubu ...
Politics of Nigeria. The federal government of Nigeria is composed of three distinct branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, whose powers are vested and bestowed upon by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. [1] One of the primary functions of the constitution is that it provides for separation and balance of ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in Nigeria on 23 February 2019 to elect the President, Vice President, House of Representatives and the Senate. [1][2][3][4] The elections had initially been scheduled for 16 February, but the Electoral Commission postponed the vote by a week at 03:00 on the original polling day, citing logistical challenges ...