Nigerian oil tycoon Tein Jack-Rich disqualified from Senate run
Billionaires Africa | 19.05.2026 18:32
Nigeria's ruling party blocked one of the country's most prominent oil entrepreneurs from participating in its Senate primary elections on Monday, then quietly reversed the disqualification of a separate candidate on the same day, in a sequence of events that laid bare the political fault lines running through one of the country's wealthiest and most strategically important states.
