Ex-ThisDay Editor emerges Tinubu’s spokesman

A former Editor of the prestigious and highly influential THISDAY, the Sunday Newspaper, Tunde Rahman, has emerged the spokesman of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Available information has it that Rahman, who will be officially unveiled next week, will be replacing Sunday Dare, who has been given a federal appointment.
Rahman, the Managing Editor of Western Post, has a journalism experience spanning well over two decades.
He had started out in 1989 as Political Correspondent of Lagos Horizon Newspaper, a community newspaper then based in Lagos.
From there he moved to the old Daily Times in 1991 as Political Correspondent, covering the political parties and the electoral commission, then called the National Electoral Commission.
When the seat of Federal Government moved to Abuja on December 12, 1991, Rahman was moved to the Federal Capital Territory as the pioneer Political Correspondent of the old Daily Times in Abuja.
At the Daily Times, he rose to become Deputy Political Editor and and Political Editor.
He left after nine years at the Times to join The Punch as Deputy News Editor/Assistant Editor, Abuja.
He was moved to Lagos as Group News Editor in 2003 after the general elections, thus putting an end to his altogether 13 years sojourn in Abuja as a journalist.
At Punch, he was the main news anchor for over a year and held the forte for the editor several times.
Rahman resigned from Punch in October 2004 to join THISDAY as Deputy Editor, the Sunday Newspaper, during which he pioneered the political arm of the paper called CICERO.
He was later moved to the daily newspaper as Deputy Editor before being promoted Editor, The Saturday Newspaper and later, Editor, THISDAY on Sunday.
Rahman holds a B.SC in Political Science, a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and a Masters in Communication Studies.
He has also attended courses at the Lagos Business School.
He is widely travelled and has attended many conferences at home and abroad.
In 2008, he chaired a forum of African-Indian Editors in New Delhi, India and was at the World Media Forum in 2009 in China.
He is married to Hauwa and they both have three children.