Tinubu’s Books Ready for Public Presentation, Says Publisher
The public presentations of two new books written on President Bola Tinubu, The Pathfinder: The Life and Politics of an African Politician and The Blueprint: How Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Transformed Lagos State, are ready, the publisher has said.
The books, published by the Topseal Communications Limited, are being planned to be unfolded to the public to coincide with the commemoration of Tinubu’s birthday in March this year.
The books were both written by Taiwo Ogundipe, an author and a veteran journalist.
The Pathfinder, his official biography, details the accounts of Tinubu’s life and politics from the early years, his education, his brilliant professional career as an accountant, his engaging political activities, his ground-breaking two-term tenure as helmsman of Lagos State.
It also includes his active post gubernatorial period, his unique leadership in the political landscape of the country that led to the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his midwifing the election of ex-President Muhammedu Buhari.
The Pathfinder, the author said in a statement, was written to highlight the essential Tinubu, document his struggles and accomplishments, and show the value of his political dexterity in the context of nation building.
The book also provides a useful insight into the background that shaped a political figure that has come to represent progressive politics in Nigeria.
The Blueprint is an engaging documentation of the financial strategy and the foundation that Tinubu laid for the enduring economic development of Lagos State.
The compelling Lagos economic story, especially during the tenure of Tinubu as governor, is one that has to be told. That is why the author took on the task of telling it.
Ogundipe started work on The Pathfinder since Tinubu’s first year as governor of Lagos State, researching and interviewing numerous people for the project.
Ogundipe said he was so committed to seeing the project to fruition that he had to forego his opportunity for postgraduate studies in the United States of America when he had to come back to Nigeria for the then proposed launch of the book a few years back.
He started as a reporter with the then The Democrat newspapers based in Kaduna, after which he joined ThisWeek magazine as a senior reporter.
He thereafter moved to the Daily Times as a senior writer and ran a very popular column in the then widest circulating Sunday Times. He later joined The Concord press as an assistant editor and edited the weekly Midweek Concord.
He eventually became a member of the editorial board of ThisDay newspapers and pioneered a very popular column on Sunday. He was until recently the Associate Editor of The Nation newspapers.