Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a professional accountant and former top executive at Mobil Oil Producing, Nigeria, where he rose to the position of Treasurer. He is one of Nigeria’s foremost political thinkers, an acknowledged democracy and human rights advocate, a leading national political figure and highly successful business leader.

Before his current position as the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, he served as the Governor of Lagos State for eight years between 1999-2007. He worked very hard with his team to remake Lagos into one of the most important financial, commercial and cultural centres on the African Continent.

President Tinubu, at a time was Nigeria’s leading opposition figure and the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He is one of the architects of the emergence of  two-dominant political parties in Nigeria.

An advocate of fiscal federalism, President Tinubu’s political astuteness and success story is the most outstanding on the Nigerian political landscape in the last two decades. In Nigeria today, he is widely respected as a leading political and economic strategist, risk taker and a hunter for talents.

Since he assumed office as the 16th President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023, he has initiated bold economic reforms that have restored local and global confidence in the Nigerian economy. He signed into law bold Tax and Fiscal Policies directed towards streamlining the national tax system and administration to make the business environment more vibrant and competitive. President Tinubu, as a reformer, has set a $1 trillion GDP target for the country by the year 2030.