Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect, has been named in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2023.

The All Progressives Congress candidate, who won Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25, was named in the “leader” category list released on Thursday, alongside US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Other categories in the annual list which recognized the 100 most influential people in the world are titans, pioneers, artists, and icons.

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In a statement, Times Magazine described the former Lagos State governor and APC chieftain as a “longtime political power broker who seems “aware of his inheritance in form of a litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy.”

On May 29, Tinubu will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s fifth executive president since the country’s return to democracy in 1999.

He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates in the keenly contested February 25 presidential poll.