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In the global financial system, VALENTINE CHINETO OZIGBO, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and four other professional bodies, is a big name.

The immediate past President and Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (TRANSCORP), a diversified conglomerate with strategic investments and core interests in the hospitality, agribusiness and energy sectors, Ozigbo worked previously as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Transcorp Hotels Plc.


He also worked in the banking industry, gaining over 17 years of experience with NAL Merchant Bank, Diamond Bank, Continental Trust Bank, FSB International Bank, Standard Trust Bank and United Bank for Africa, most of the time managing leading global multilateral institutions in their intricate relationship with the Nigerian financial institutions.

He is currently an aspirant for the governorship of Anambra State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this engaging interview with Managing Director, IKECHUKWU AMAECHI and Editor, EMEKA ALEX DURU, Ozigbo takes informed look at the leadership conundrum in Nigeria, offering suggestions on the way out. He also analyses the PDP in Anambra State, which he says has changed for good. He gives insight into his antecedents and how he would reposition the state if given the chance.

On July 20, you will be 50 years old. Why did you quit your position as President and Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc after just one year? Is it not too early to quit such a high profile job that many your age can only dream about?

There are two aspects to this question. One is my age, the other, my motivation for quitting TRANSCORP. I will like to respond to them separately.

It is actually amazing why we have lost sense of time in Nigeria; why we forget that a man who turns 50, in most cases, has almost hit the borderline and is now thinking about what remains of his useful and valuable life. I say this because I actually consider 50 an age of maturity.

When you talk about my motivation which we shall come to, I always tell myself that I should have done this much earlier because the best time to impact on humanity is at your youthful age. And the definition of youth is when you are in your prime. I want to ask that as in other things we do in life, let’s begin now to challenge our youths at much earlier age to bring out their best because it is actually these youths that can shape a better future for Nigeria. People who are ruling the world today, mention them, check actually when they made their most marks. Let’s not even talk about the likes of Warren Buffet and others. But look at Mark Zuckerberg and some of the youths currently making the wave across the world. Let us even look back at some of those people that led us in the military era. No matter how good or bad they performed, they started at a younger age. In Nigeria, we keep recycling old age and not experience. There is a saying that a man who has done the same kind of thing over and over is simply one year old in that experience multiplied by that number of years. Therefore, until we begin to do new things in our life, and allow younger ones whose ingenuity, creativity, imagination is actually stronger we may not get Nigeria working. So, at 50, I feel it is not such a young age. I just wanted to touch on the premise of that question.

Source: https://www.thenicheng.com/as-governor-i-will-transform-anambra-and-set-a-standard-for-governance-in-nigeria-ozigbo/

Dem don come again. Politician should adopt another tactics. Come 2023, any politician that campaign with unreasonable promises,3D thunder will strike them instantly!!

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Euouae:
Naxo!

Same Obiano said in those days.

All he could offer was a counterfeit suspension bridge and clearing of ancestral land for a fictional airport!

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Let the best and honest candidate succeed Obiano

They don come again oh. The transformers