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iamrealdeji:
Do they not feel cold? I prefer being in a luxury home.
Rabiu,just don't forget to observe your salat 5 times daily even in your yacht. Yacht can never match the pleasure of living in a luxury home. Proximity to mosque 5 times a day and proximity to shopping at the mall, proximity to different spots. Yacht is too expensive to maintain and it's not worth it. Only useful for those that rent it out. Living at a home and travelling to places is much better. Yacht is just a mobile home,nothing special

I assume you're saying this from the comfort of your luxury home Clowns everywhere.

[quote author=gabbytabby post=139767376]Some just come to chase food and skirt while some dream and invest in productive pursuits.

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Motivational speaker..
So for you mind you think say na by dream and invest in productive pursuit..come street of Lagos and Abuja and see how people dream and investment dey crash like naira within a minute

Kayouzka:
And they say God is good

God is still good

ednut1:
their parents started somewhere. You also can

My brother the start no want produce anything tangible....we dey try hard every day yet Money no gree stay for account..

Old man like this dey type name like Yahoo boy. You can already imagine the internal workings of his mind. No wonder him John Thomas dey sample different women despite a decades-old marriage.

I am not impressed with Nigerian-owned yachts. Enter them even in foreign lands and it will feel like you went through a wormhole back to Nigeria. Some go get cockroach infestations inside cabins. God forbid!

You are who and what you surround yourself with.

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I wonder what motivates a billionaire to go to work.

Part of the criminal gangs in Nigeria.

A lot of private business sectors are the real cabals to the presidency, they would do anything to make evil politicians to remain in power as long as their interest is protected.

iamrealdeji:
Do they not feel cold? I prefer being in a luxury home.
Rabiu,just don't forget to observe your salat 5 times daily even in your yacht. Yacht can never match the pleasure of living in a luxury home. Proximity to mosque 5 times a day and proximity to shopping at the mall, proximity to different spots. Yacht is too expensive to maintain and it's not worth it. Only useful for those that rent it out. Living at a home and travelling to places is much better. Yacht is just a mobile home,nothing special

Yacht is only expensive to those who bought it for the wrong reasons like luxury. Billionaires and millionaires across the world buys luxuries like yacht, private jets, artworks, expensive cars to reduce there tax bills and increase there company's profitability.

blowjohn:
Nothing inspiring here.

Nothing innovative.

U might even be flexing more than them. That's the truth.

Yesterday I had a full roast chicken, lemon water, rice and stew with ram. Pork suya at night. And lots of salads.

What more could one ask for to enter one's Belle?

You got it wrong thinking they enjoying life on a floating conference centre. This yacht is registered in Monaco, a tax haven and offshore financial centre where business opportunities across the world accessible as in oxygen in the atmosphere. This where the utra-rich discuss, design and sign business documents on international waters outside any countries law.

Money is good.
I dont envy them.Its good to enjoy.
But african wealthy men are good in show offs to their poor audiences and admirers.
An average oyibo european no send you.
If you want,snap in 100 yachts at a time.
Na obodo ndi mind your business.

Self made not much. Most are inherited wealth

Nword22:
These guys are not self made billionaires...

They want to act like one while we the self-made are here looking.

gabbytabby:
You are who and what you surround yourself with.

Motivational speaker....who no want be like dangote

Gboss247:
You got it wrong thinking they enjoying life on a floating conference centre. This yacht is registered in Monaco, a tax haven and offshore financial centre where business opportunities across the world accessible as in oxygen in the atmosphere. This where the utra-rich discuss, design and sign business documents on international waters outside any countries law.

My point is: how much can u spend at a time or in a typical day to enjoy ur self? With 30k for example u can flex ur self and not need billions.

mysticwarrior:
Even you self no dey flex, doctor say to much eating of meat is bad,l.

Beef is not considered one of the best anti inflammatory food.

mablie:
I am still waiting to see an Otedola e-library,an Otedola foundation or an Otedola hospital for the poor but i won't because that is not the objective of Neo-Liberal Capitalism which only only aims to make a minority in the society super wealthy while the majority remains in penury

Or research Center or lab that will seek to improve on quality of oil or any other areas of science.

But no. It's to drill till eternity

iamrealdeji:
I dey with you my guy. You're enjoying than them. Yacht is just a mobile home,nothing special in just viewing oceans 24/7. I would rather drive around or travel around and see different places than see water alone 24/7. Yacht is just a way Oyinbos extort and forced exclusivity but it's relaxation can never match that of being on land and living in a nice home,relaxing the way you relaxed

Exactly. For example, if I hold 30k a day, I go satisfy my cravings. How much can they drink or eat on the yatch? Is it food? No ne rice and salad or seafood? I hope buy am chop for here too. The quest for billions is just greed sometimes

EmekaBlue:
Bro do you have millions in your account?

No one can kidnap me too.

naptu2:
Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola worked as a journalist in the UK (where he schooled) and in Nigeria. He worked for such prestigious newspapers as The Times and The Guardian in the UK.

Sir Michael also worked as the spokesman of Mobil Oil in Nigeria and he set up a large printing and publishing company called Impact Press. It was based in Surulere, Lagos.

He was knighted with the Order of St Sylvester by Pope Paul VI in 1974.


He got involved in politics during the Third Republic and contested the 1991 Lagos State governorship election on the platform of the National Republican Congress (NRC).

Although Lagos was a majority SDP state, protest votes from sections of the SDP led to victory for Sir Otedola.

The governor was a member of the NRC, but the SDP had an overwhelming majority in the House of Assembly and it controlled the local governments. Sir Michael was able to manage the situation very well.

He served as governor from January 1992 till November 1993 when Abacha struck.

Sir Michael returned to his publishing business after leaving office. He died in 2014.

I remembered the battle then in Lagos

Sarumi vs Agbalajobi VS Otedola

Hemanwel:
I remember Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola wasn't even the winner of the governorship elections that year. Babangida just decided to pick him among the aspirants.

This is my post from September 14th, 2018.



In order to understand this, we need to understand who the two gladiators in 1991 were.


The battle in the SDP in 1991 was between the PSP and the PF. What were the PSP and the PF?


The People's Front (PF) was Yar'Adua's political structure and it was represented in Lagos by young politicians in the Primrose Group, i.e. Dapo Sarumi, Bola Tinubu, Yomi Edu, etc.


However, the People's Solidarity Party (PSP) was an amalgamation of the followers of Obafemi Awolowo and Aminu Kano. The Awoists had controlled the South-West in the First Republic (apart from Lagos Island, where the Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeniji Adele supported Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC) and they also controlled the entire South-West (including Lagos and Bendel) in the Second Republic.

In Lagos the PSP was represented by powerful politicians like Alhaji Lateef Jakande (Baba Kekere), who was governor of the state from 1979-1983 (and who considered himself to be Awo's successor) and Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu (a family friend of ours) who had been the chairman of the Lagos Town Council and had served as a commissioner in Lagos many times.


The PSP had the structure in Lagos (they controlled every part of Lagos), while the PF had support from Abuja and they were young and ambitious/adventurous.


The PSP's Professor Femi Agbalajobi and the PF's Dapo Sarunmi slugged it out for the SDP ticket. The battle was intense and bloody, so the SDP disqualified both candidates. The SDP then chose Yomi Edu (a member of PF) as a consensus/neutral candidate.

The PSP was furious. They felt that Yomi Edu was chosen because he was a member of PF and Ambassador Babagana Kingibe (the SDP chairman) was also a member of PF. The PSP decided to teach the PF a lesson and show them that they had the structure and that they controlled Lagos (not the PF in Abuja), so they voted against Yomi Edu and Sir Michael Otedola won.


The question now is, who in Lagos today has the kind of structure that the PSP had in 1991?

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This is my post from July 6th, 2018.

However, crisis between the PF and PSP factions of the SDP cost the party the Lagos and Kano governorship positions in the 1991 elections.

The PSP faction of the SDP in Lagos (the Awoists) led by the former governor, Baba Kekere, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, supported Professor Femi Agbalajobi in the primaries, while the PF faction supported one of General Yar’Adua’s associates, Chief Dapo Sarumi. The battle between Agbalajobi’s supporters and Sarumi’s supporters was intense and bloody and both candidates were eventually disqualified by the national leadership of the party. Another associate of Yar’Adua, Chief Yomi Edu (the son of Chief S.L. Edu) was eventually selected as the candidate of the party.

The PSP faction felt that the PF had used the fact that one of its members was chairman of the party (Kingibe) to impose another PF member as the party’s candidate and so they decided to vote for the NRC to show their displeasure. The NRC candidate, Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola ended up winning the gubernatorial election and he became governor of Lagos despite the fact that the SDP controlled the state house of assembly and the local governments.

A very similar situation played out in Kano State between members of the PF and the PSP faction (followers of Aminu Kano). Although the SDP was more popular in Kano than the NRC, many members were not happy with the choice of Alhaji Magaji Abdullahi as the candidate of the party and therefore, the NRC candidate, Kabiru Gaya, won the governorship election in that state.

Nword22:
No one can kidnap me too.

😄 I'm no kidnapper. But I dont believe millionaires are here anymore on nairaland.

gtassure:
See poor person trying to advise the Rich!-typical Nigerian!

I wouldn't insult you but I'm far from being poor. Not everybody that comment on social media is poor. I'm a rich man in my own right and a lot of people envy me, Alhamdulillah. Not as rich as these people though and you don't have to be as rich as them to enjoy life.

DanseMacabre:
I assume you're saying this from the comfort of your luxury home Clowns everywhere.

Yes,I live in a luxury home. A lot of people are living fine in Nigeria. These people are very popular and richer than 99.999% of rich people in Nigeria,but that doesn't mean some people are not living fine and even better than them without yacht. Hustle for yours too but it's not a must you have to be as rich as Dangote. He probably envies some people too if he has your insatiable mindset. You may not even be close to as rich as these people and still enjoy life than them

blowjohn:
Exactly. For example, if I hold 30k a day, I go satisfy my cravings. How much can they drink or eat on the yatch? Is it food? No ne rice and salad or seafood? I hope buy am chop for here too. The quest for billions is just greed sometimes

That's true. Even Dangote said he needs very little to live his life. And according to Meta A.I,the maximum anybody can have as networth to live very rich with surplus luxury including buying yacht is $50million. anything after it is not needed and just all about competing with other CEOs and being rich for legacy and control of politicians