If entrepreneurship were an art, you may call Wale Tinubu, Michelangelo; and if it were classical music, call him Mozart. Blessed with vigorous optimism, a boots-on-the-ground approach to his endeavours, an unflinching belief in destiny (read God), it did not come as any surprise that few months after many were throwing snide remarks over certain transactions that upset some of his businesses, Wale, the billionaire mogul behind Oando Plc,  has bounced back.
He has survived several tempests that would have sunk a whole clan. For an ordinary businessman, that would have been the very end. But Wale is no ordinary man. He is a gifted survivalist. Wale made good his promise to bounce back to the economic arena more powerfully and convincingly. He re-laced his boots for the journey ahead.
As you read, shares in Oando rose 9.4 percent on Monday to an eight-month high. Oando climbed to 7.55 naira after trading 140,800 units by 1121 GMT. The shares closed at 6.90 naira previous session. Nigerian regulators lifted a trading suspension on the company’s shares last week.
Interestingly, the crude oil price now is $72 per barrel and still rising. And of the $900m they borrowed to buy the ConocoPhilips, over $600m has been paid. Good things are happening in Oando.
No doubt, it is charming to be in the same epoch as Tinubu. It is quite enlightening too. Being a witness to the Oando boss’ exploits, is quite inspirational and replete with interesting anecdotes to ambitious young men and women seeking his kind of entrepreneurial success and acclaim.
Yes, very few men excite interminable tribute of clamorous cheers in the wake of their most glorious exploits and attainments like him; Wale stunningly commands the inexorable homage of unending cheers – these days it reverberates as boisterous applause for the extraordinariness of the man who taught Nigeria and the African continent to trust in his entrepreneurial depth and citizenship of humanity.
Â
