Ayomi

Peter Obi showed up at our Made-in-Nigeria Products Expo at the Law School, Victoria Island, in 2018. He literally went from one exhibition booth to another, asking us about the challenges we wanted the government to address and how it could intervene to alleviate them. He was accompanied by @TonyOElumelu and several other billionaire entrepreneurs. He didn't stand on a stage to speak to us. He came directly to stand beside us, bought our products, made his recommendations and reviews, and took the time to understand the problems we were facing as entrepreneurs. That is a leader who walks his talk. Four years later, in 2022, he presented a blueprint for making entrepreneurship and education the cornerstones of Nigeria's national policy and the driving forces of our economy. I was also at a town hall where he gave us insights into how his proposed start-up visa policy would make Nigeria's entrepreneurship ecosystem borderless, attract foreign talent and encourage people from other countries to come and build businesses here. The resulting knowledge transfer would accelerate local technological advancement, improve business processes and strengthen our entrepreneurial ecosystem. He also travelled to Indonesia to deliver a keynote address to the Indonesian government on the urgency of placing entrepreneurship and education at the heart of national policy if the country must sustainably lift its people out of poverty. Even as a governor operating within constitutionally restricted executive powers, he demonstrated his commitment to these ideas through action. This is why I find it cringeworthy when someone comes on X to claim that Peter Obi has never said anything that made sense to them, yet Tinubu's bala-bulubulu initiative makes perfect sense to them. I never believed that mad people have left the streets until I took my X media seriously. They are all over here, carrying out their stupid social media rage missions.