President-elect Bola Tinubu has been named in TIME magazine\u2019s 100 Most Influential People of 2023.<\/p>\n
Others on the list included the King of the United Kingdom, King Charles III; US President Joe Biden; US Senator Mitch McConnell; Argentine footballer, Lionel Messi and Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n Some entertainers on the list included US actor, Michael B. Jordan; US singer, Beyonce; US actress, Angela Bassett, amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n Tinubu\u2019s profile as given by TIME magazine read, \u201cWinning an election in Africa\u2019s most populous country is no easy feat. But Nigeria\u2019s newly elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has had nearly two decades to prepare.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCalled Jagaban, or \u2018leader of the warriors\u2019, by his supporters, the now 71-year-old ran in a presidential election for the first time this March.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHis campaign slogan, \u2018It\u2019s my turn\u2019, was a nod to his role as a longtime political power broker. Tinubu helped restore the country\u2019s democracy in 1999 after fighting military rule and then served two consecutive terms as governor of Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut Tinubu\u2019s win with the ruling All Progressives Congress party came in a fraught election and by a slim margin over Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was the first time Nigerian voters contended with a third-party candidate, and many discontented young Nigerians yearning for change pinned their hopes on Obi. Marred by allegations of intimidation and vote rigging, the outcome of the ballot is being challenged in court.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTinubu now faces a litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut the President-elect seems aware of his inheritance: \u2018[Nigeria] is one country and we must build it together,\u2019 he said in his acceptance speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President-elect Bola Tinubu has been named in TIME magazine\u2019s 100 Most Influential People of 2023. Others on the list included<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}