Nigerian billionaires who should emulate Donald Trump – The emergence of billionaire businessman, Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America has sent a strong message to the world. Trump, 70, has built office towers, hotels, casinos, golf courses, and other branded facilities worldwide through his self-named conglomerate ‘Trump Organization’ Experts say Trump victory signals then end of the Washington Establishment which has held sway in the scheme of things in American politics.
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The same can be said of Nigeria where some Abuja based politicians have practically been in charge in successive governments.
In Nigeria, private sector players hardly venture into politics, even though many of them have excelled in their various fields, the best they get is to be appointed either by a less educated president or an outright incompetent head of state.
Trump’s victory is a challenge to Nigerian businessmen who have excelled in the private sector to take the risk and enter the political fray.
Granted that the American and Nigerian political environment are different, it is high-time the Nigerian business community rally round its own and produce ‘Nigeria’s Donald Trump’.
Her’s a list of four Nigerian businessmen who can reproduce the Donald Trump effect in Nigeria
1. Tony Elumelu
Anything he touches turn to gold. At just 34 years, he acquired and transformed Standard Trust Bank into one of the top banks in Nigeria within a very short time. In 2005, he merged the bank with United Bank for Africa (UBA) and transformed UBA into a multi-national bank that now operate in over 18 African countries with more than six million customers.
He currently chairs investment firm Heirs Holdings and Nigeria’s largest quoted conglomerate, Transcorp. He invests across Africa, primarily in the oil and gas, financial services, hospitality and power sectors. He is one man who is every bit presidential in his tone, composure, outlook, influence, connection and performance. He will make a good president.
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