About 20 years ago, governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State was fighting one of his biggest political battles ahead of the 2003 governorship poll. He had fallen out with his deputy as well as the chairman of the party while his earlier problems with US law enforcement and questions over his academic qualifications were being used by opponents to discredit him.
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