Many Lagosian have erroneously traced Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s lineage to the then Lagos Business woman Efunroye Tinubu who was named after Tinubu Square in Lagos Island but the truth here is that the leader of All Progressive Congress APC is a native of Iragbiji in Osun State
Tinubu was one of the political loyalists to the Late MKO Abiola in fact MKO was said to played a vital role in the political career of Tinubu.
Tinubu before he became the Governor of Lagos State in 1999 was nobody, all for him to emerge as the owner of a multi-million naira business empire briefly after governing one of the most expensive city in the world for 8 years
The question here is what is the source of his sudden wealth?.
Jagaban as he is popularly called
acquired the following businesses and properties through various dubious means under the disguise Lagos state government.
1. Oriental Hotel.
2.Falomo Shopping Complex
3. First Nation Airline
4. Lekki Concession Company
5. Apapa Amusement Park
6. Maiyegun Land Project
7. The Nation News Paper
8. Renaissance Hotel
9. Tejuoso Market (Joint ownership)
10. Ikeja Shopping Mall
11. TV Continental
12. Converted Lagos Poly land for TVC
13. Owned NNPC Office building in Lagos
14. Radio Continental
15. Owned School of Nursing building in Lagos
16. Tax Collector of Lagos State (Alpha Beta)
17. Wife is a member of the National Assembly
18. Son-in-law is a member of the National Assembly
19. Daughter is the President-General of Market Women Association in Lagos
20. N4 billion government financed property for self at Queens Drive, Lagos.
Aside the above listed Tinubu has several political godsons at various government parastatals who in turn has specific among of money remitted into his account either daily, weekly or monthly basis.
The current crisis rocking the local government chairmanship aspirants in Lagos is not without his inputs. Tinubu was alleged to have collected 50 million each from aspirants in all the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas in Lagos state to imposed candidates on his party APC.
As it stands now Tinubu seems to be the major headache in the ruling All Progressive Congress as some of his policies in the part is fast denting the image of the party especially in the Southwest.
