A Nigerian Facebook user by the name of Adeyeye Olurunfemi wrote a lengthy piece on Facebook which seemed directed to Paddy Adenuga who recently revealed how he almost bought Chevron Netherlands for 50 million USD. According to Paddy, he was just
29 years old when he almost sealed the deal and did not require any help from his father who is a well known billionaire, Mike Adenuga the owner of Globacom Telecommunications. A lot of Nigerians did not conform with his story of not getting help from
his dad because most Nigerians feel that his dad has enough influence that can back him up just by the mentioning of his name. One of those Nigerians is Adyeye and this is what he had to say:
MY LETTER TO PADDY ADENUGA Part One. Dear Paddy Adenuga, How are you Ore mi Olówó, awon ti Chevron? People have always said we look alike. I disagreed with them until recently, when I looked closely at
the shape of your head. Ìbí ló yàtò, Orí wá jo’ra won. No apologies to my non-yoruba audience. I’m sorry. This is a family issue. I read your very brilliant story on how you started from the bottom and sincerely for those of us who
started from the top, we are challenged. It is also interesting to know that you are ‘unpadding’ your family wealth from your success story. But I do not understand what you are trying to achieve with this story of yours
especially at this time when young people like you are very frustrated. However, your story made me remember an event organized sometime in 2016 at the University of Lagos with Folorunsho Alakija, the richest black woman as
one of the speakers. She didactically took her audience through lessons of endurance, perseverance and humility, going further to tell them that ‘you don’t have to be educated to be a millionaire’. She may be right but caution was thrown to the wind in that statement. You do not come
to a school environment, even at a gathering of Professors, to quip such darts of ‘mockery’, all in the name of ‘motivational speaking’. Very wrong move. She could leave the audience without being challenged because no one cares how you get your money in my Country. Once
you are rich in Nigeria, you become a celebrated ‘Motivational Speaker’. Lest I forget, Davido was also invited to motivate undergraduate and postgraduate scholars. I do not know if you have heard about Tella
Temitayo Rahamon, a modern fashionprenuer who utilizes social media as tool in his business. He has a reasonable staff strength and has been in the business for 10 years running. The wealthy Alakija didn’t do her ‘fashion business’ up to 10 years before she owned oil bloc(s); what
ought to be a National property. This was in the late 80’s to 1993 when there was no social media to even promote the fashion and printing -the same printing Baba Bisi in Ota, Ogun State does. From Clothes to Printing to Owning and Exploring in an Oil field shows a transition that could only
be made possible by the ‘Nigerian God’. Talk about Bill Gates, Microsoft comes to mind. Zuckerberg -Facebook. Steve Jobs- Apple Corporations. Nigerian Billionaire- ‘God has been faithful’. Do not forget that the popular Yomi Casual does not own a petrol station let alone an oil
bloc. It then baffles me and stabs any known economic logic in the World, how a 1980 fashion designer ‘worked so hard with humility, perseverance and endurance’ and ‘God’ rewarded the tailor with OIL BLOC. The Author of
The Richest Man in Babylon contacted me last night that he wants to co-author The Richest Woman in Babylon with Alakija for she is ‘super smart’. Her philosophy and principles of wealth creation beat all imaginations.
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