Ebuka Anisiobi, an Igbo youngster, became the first one-day governor of Lagos State thanks to Senator Oluremi Tinubu and her husband, former governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu.
Through her New Era Foundation, Oluremi, the then-first lady of Lagos State, established a spelling bee competition for secondary school students in 2001. The winner would go on to serve as the city of Lagos’ governor for a single day.
Imo State Oluremi remembered how Ebuka won the spelling bee competition and became the first one-day governor of Lagos while speaking to a gathering of females at a rally in Owerri. Many people, according to her, believed he wouldn’t be permitted to become governor after he won the race.
Oluremi said precisely: “Most of your kids benefited when I ran the spelling bee in Lagos State. You probably recall the first-ever one-day Lagos State Governor, an Igbo boy. It has been roughly 23 years since that time, but I don’t recall it well. They believed we were playing games, so I explained that he had won the spelling bee, and my husband added that Ebuka Anisiobi had served as governor for a single day. Alex was the second person Tinubu heavily invested in after Ebuka. Alex Ezeanagu finished third (in the spelling bee), but he continued on to law school and graduated first “.
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