Atiku Abubakar (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu (APC), Rabiu Kwankwaso (NNPP), and Peter Obi (LP) are the frontrunner in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential elections.
Atiku Abubakar (PDP)
- Atiku Abubakar was born 25 November 1946.
- He served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. He ran as governor of Adamawa State in 1990, 1996, and in 1998, when he was finally elected before he became Olusegun Obasanjo’s running mate during the 1999 presidential election and was re-elected in 2003.
- Atiku Abubakar ran unsuccessfully for President of Nigeria five times, in 1993, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019.
- Abubakar has four wives and twenty-eight children. Atiku explains: “I wanted to expand the Abubakar family. I felt extremely lonely as a child. I had no brother and no sister. I did not want my children to be as lonely as I was. This is why I married more than one wife. My wives are my sisters, my friends, and my advisers, and they complement one another.”
- Abubakar worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, as the second highest position in the Service was then known; he retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics. He started out in the real estate business during his early days as a Customs Officer.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu (APC)
- Tinubu was born on the 29th March 1952 [he will be 71 years old by March 29, 2023].
- There have been debates about his education, certification, and professional career.
- Social media has always countered that he’s constantly changing his real age on his Wikipedia page. They claimed his real date of birth is 29th March 1942, Tinubu remained silent over the issue until December 5, 2022. While speaking at Chatham House in London, Tinubu said; “At the time of birth, I was dated March 29, 1952. Then, I don’t think I’d decided to be President of Nigeria, not even that I would go into politics.”
- Bola Ahmad has made several achievements and amassed huge wealth and affluence. He’s married to Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
- Coming back from exile in 1998, he soon gained the limelight and became the governor of Lagos state in May 1999. He’s known worldwide for creating 37 LGAs in the state. He reigned as a governor for eight good years!
Read the full biography of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Rabiu Kwankwaso (NNPP)
- Musa Kwankwaso was born on October 21, 1956, in Kwankwaso, a village located in Madobi LGA of Kano State.
- His father was the village head of Kwankwaso with the title of Sarkin Fulani, Dagacin Kwankwaso; he was promoted to the District Head of Madobi with the title of Majidadin Kano, Hakimin Madobi by the Kano Emirate Council of Emir Ado Bayero.
- Kwankwaso married his wife Salamatu Rabiu Musa in 2000 and they are blessed with six (6) children.
- Kwankwaso was an active student leader during his school days and was an elected official of the Kano State Students Association.
- Kwankwaso joined the PDP in 1998 and was elected as the governor of Kano State in 1999, but he lost his re-election bid in 2003. After he lost his re-election in 2003, he was appointed the Minister of Defence by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
- He was re-elected as the governor in 2011 and in 2015 he was elected as Senator representing Kano Central on the platform of APC.
Read the full Rabiu Kwankwaso biography.
Peter Obi (LP)
- Peter Gregory Obi fondly called ‘Okwute’ (Rock) is a Nigerian politician and businessman who was impeached as the governor of Anambra state in 2006, but the impeachment was overturned in 2007.
- He was born at Onitsha in Anambra, a state located in the southeastern region of Nigeria.
- Peter was born on the 19th of July, 1961. He hails from Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra state.
- Obi is a Catholic Church Papal Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester.
- Peter Obi is the second born of his family, and has two brothers and two sisters as siblings.
Read the full Peter Obi biography.
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