Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been listed among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year 2023 Time magazine.
Tinubu was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election on February 25th ahead of his rivals People’s Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
The APC candidate polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat fellow contenders – Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes, Labour Party’s Peter Obi had 6,101,533 votes to come third and candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso with 1,496,687 votes.
Time magazine while selecting Tinubu as one of its 100 most influential people of 2023 said winning an election in Africa’s most populous country is no easy feat.
