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Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi has now ceased to be an adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him today along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”.


Adebayo Ogunlesi: to advise Trump on the economy
Trump sacked Ogunlesi on Twitter, when he announced the dissolution of two business advisory councils, in one fell swoop.


Ogunlesi was a member of Strategic and Policy Forum, one of the two disbanded by the unpredictable president. The other group was the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.

Ogunlesi, heads Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm and one of Fortune 500 companies. He was the only African on the panel.

The New York Times reported before Trump’s tweeted dissolution, that members of Ogunlesi’s panel were debating dissolving the body entirely as Trump wallowed deeper into bigotry quagmire. But Trump preempted their move.

“Corporate leaders had hoped that President Trump would help businesses by slashing taxes and gutting regulations. It is not clear how much he will deliver on that score. On top of that, he is putting many chief executives in the position of answering for a president with an unparalleled track record of outraging people, most recently at a contentious press conference on Tuesday when he drew a false equivalence between the white supremacists who protested in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend and counter-protesters.”, NYT reported.

Trump had earned rebuke and isolation from business leaders for supporting racial bigotry, White Supremacists and the KKK, following his remarks that failed to blame the tragic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on the group. Instead, he blamed all the sides and the group that challenged the racists.

The leaders of three companies — Kenneth Frazier of Merck, Kevin Plank of Under Armour and Brian Krzanich of Intel — were the first to resign from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.

They resigned on Monday because Mr. Trump was slow to condemn the white supremacists during the weekend and blamed “many sides” for the violence.

When Trump moderated his tone on Monday by saying “racism is evil” and condemning neo-Nazis, he did not assuage some of the CEOs working with him.

Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, an organization backed by the steel industry and the United Steelworkers resigned. he was followed on Tuesday by Richard Trumka and Thea Lee, the president and deputy chief of staff for the union group A.F.L.-C.I.O.. The latter’s resignation followed Trump’s reversed position at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, in which he said that “not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” referring to the white nationalists who were chanting “Jews will not replace us” as they marched with tiki-torches.

Ogunlesi’s Strategic Forum, composed some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders.

kazyhm:
i do. in fact, i just friendzoned myself with one but i think she is still trying to bring us back to what we were some months ago

i wasn't the one that started the relationship stuffs though but i play along when i realise she is actually single and she is feeling me..............

one thing led to the other and she was trying to put me in her world.....but she couldnt......one day during one of our numerous arguments, she playfully said we should just be friend and i agreed......but she later said she didn't mean it but me don zoom off to be chairman of her friendzone local govt.


i'm still trying to figure how to tell her i'm dating the best girl in the world now in other to avoid unnecessary explanations to my babe leter..........

ashjay001:
I'm talking abt d ones that can have sex with u n still hold a pillow over ur face while u get stabbed!?

Those ones that dont think of d consequence, as long as dey get to treat ur fu,ckup!?

ashjay001:
Esp, when u discover say she get 'mental', n u wan hit n run ni!? U go just gv urself brain, forget what u're missing, n jejely friendzone urself.

Fuckly:
[color=#DA7510] My çock won't permit me to fúçking friendzone myself [/color]

Fuckly:
[color=#DA7510] Only if she ain't fúçking sexy[/color]

thepussyhunter:
Yeah bro except that i wasnt lusting over her in the first place

i had always just want to be friends with her but the bae wanted me bad

in the end though i defined the kinda realtionship i had with her and ended up permanently buying a room in her frienzone quaters ............