As President Tinubu paid a visit to the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, residents of Lagos Island in Lagos State gathered in large numbers to welcome him.
The eager locals flocked outside to see President Tinubu as he arrived at the palace.
The 16th and current president of Nigeria is a Nigerian politician by the name of Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born March 29, 1952).
From 1999 until 2007, he served as governor of Lagos State. During the Third Republic, he represented Lagos West in the Senate.
Tinubu was born and raised in the southwest of Nigeria. After moving to the United States, he attended Chicago State University to study accounting.
After moving back to Nigeria in the early 1990s, he worked as an accountant for Mobil Nigeria before entering politics in 1992 as the Social Democratic Party’s candidate for the Lagos West senate seat.
After the tyrannical Sani Abacha disbanded the Senate in 1993, Tinubu joined the National Democratic Coalition movement and started advocating for the restoration of democracy.
