Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-Elect, has been named in Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2023.
According to TheCable, Time Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world accords recognition to people “for changing the world, regardless of the consequences of their actions”.
“Influence is hard to measure, and what we look for is people whose ideas, whose example, whose talent, whose discoveries transform the world we live in.
“Influence is less about the hard power of force than the soft power of ideas and example,” Richard Stengal, former editor of Times, was quoted to have said.
The 2023 list released by Time Magazine on Thursday, placed the recognized individuals in five categories:
i. Titans
ii. Pioneers
iii. Artists
iv. Leaders, and
v. Icons
Bola Tinubu, the winner of Nigeria’s February 25th presidential election, was listed alongside Joe Biden, President of the US; Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil President; Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine; amongst other world leaders in the “Leader” category.
Time’s report described Tinubu 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”.
