Oladapo Apara, former managing director of Alpha-Beta
Consulting, has endorsed the presidential bid of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the
All Progressives Congress (APC).
In an article published in ThisDay Newspaper, on Sunday,
Apara said Tinubu is the “best man” to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as president.
The former Alpha-Beta Consulting MD said he picked Tinubu as
the “most suitable” contestant after a “dispassionate assessment” of all the
candidates in the presidential race.
In 2020, Apara, who was sacked as the managing director of
Alpha Beta Consulting in 2018, accused Tinubu of owning the firm by proxy,
which led to his dismissal and withholding of his share profit for the period
he worked for the firm.
He also made allegations of money laundering, tax evasion,
forgery, and a number of other corporate fraudulent practices against the
company and its owners.
In September 2022, Apara withdrew the case from the court
after reaching an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with the former Lagos
governor.
“My choice of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the best man for
the job is based on a dispassionate assessment of his previous public office
records and superlative antecedents, all writ large in Lagos state — Africa’s
fifth largest economy were it to be a country on its own,” Apara said.
“My pick of Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the most suitable candidate for President in 2023 is also
informed by a direct experience of the phenomenal Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
having worked with him for over twenty (20) years in various capacities,
including at a point in my career when I worked at ALPHA-BETA Consulting, which
company I eventually led as managing director/chief executive officer and
honourably disengaged from in order to pursue other interests.
“I make bold to say that the great successes we recorded at
ALPHA-BETA Consulting, especially the exponential increase in the internally
generated revenue (IGR) of all our clients — local and international have
everything to do with the capacity and competence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
as a colossus in public revenue generation re-engineering.
“Such was the undeniable results of ALPHA-BETA Consulting as
a professional firm that many states in Nigeria across party divides discarded
politics to engage ALPHA-BETA Consulting as their IGR consultants, including
some West African nations.
“As a humble recipient of a cache of prizes in financial
management and intermediation in Nigeria and across the world, I am convinced
that at this juncture in our national journey Nigeria needs a president prudent
and pragmatic in financial management like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu is an extraordinary manager of human and material resources. As
president, he would fix round pegs in round holes for a rapid socio-economic
transformation of Nigeria into the country of our collective dreams.”
He said Tinubu is a “famous and credible name” associated
with big businesses on the global stage and as president, Nigerians are poised
to see more foreign capital and investment pouring into the country like never
before.
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