The Ondo State born boardroom
colossus who’s one of the nation’s enfant terrible of the business world has
his fingers in almost all lucrative sectors of commerce like banking, oil and
gas, hospitality, media to mention but a few but the peculiar nature of how the
businesses are being run is what’s leaving bad taste in the mouth.
According to inside sources, what
makes this baffling is the fact that, most of the businesses the man about town
is taking over are landmark organizations like the national carrier, Air
Nigeria which the mogul has run aground, others are media houses, National
Mirror, Newswatch and Nicon Luxury Suites which are gasping for breath and also
the story emanating from Ghana where the Harvard trained lawyer sited a
financial institution, Energy Bank is nothing to write home about.
Those close to the Chairman of
Global Fleet recently spilled the beans on what could be the probable source of
the ups and downs in his chain of businesses. According to them, aside his
restless and uncultured administrative style, there’s this strange aura about
his personal idiosyncrasies and spiritual being which dates back from
inception.
All his life, the source confided
further in your award winning tabloid, National Enquirer, that Barrister Jimoh
Ibrahim’s life and fortune have always been ominously outlandish right from his
first major vocation as the personal assistant to Navy Commodore Oladipupo
Ayeni, the first military administrator of Bayelsa State.
Maybe by providence or spiritual
miracle, no sooner had his boss, Ayeni left office as MILAD in 1996 than his
fortune nose-dived while the P.A started catapulting in wealth and riches, and
what the impeccable source found amazing is the fact that, Barrister Ibrahim
has since closed all pipes with which the man could reach him for any help
thereof.
The situation with his former
boss and mentor got worsened to the extent that, the man was hit by a life
threatening terminal ailment when he couldn’t live up to standard and was eventually
consigned to wheel chair, Ayeni’s wife we gathered visited the business wizkid
severally for a possible assistance for her hubby but the outcome is a story
for another day.
But for the incumbent governor of
Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Navy Commodore Ayeni would have since been
forgotten as he (Fayemi) had to quickly rescue the situation by presenting him
with a brand new Toyota Avensis car with lots of goodies to keep body and soul
together.
This office gathered reliably
that despite his vast business empire, there’s always this peculiarity about
his queer administrative style which has been allegedly traced to spiritualism.
The dependable source cited a particular
strange occurrence, a second degree fire accident that almost sniffed life out
of the billionaire business mogul sometime ago.
The dateline was 2012 when one of
his marabouts allegedly proposed a ritual burnt offering for him as a lasting
solution to his business instability and persistent financial predicaments, and
the order had been that he will have to burn a live ram to ashes in the middle
of the night without anybody’s attention. At dawn on the fateful day in his VGC
house, Barrister Ibrahim sent all his domestic staff to bed early enough and
made for the sea front in his compound where the live ram was tied to a stake,
we learnt he poured petrol on it but unfortunately by the time he struck the match,
the ram smelt rat and went for him and both began to burn leaving almost half
of his body ruthlessly consumed.
The source revealed that it was a
real drama as Barrister Ibrahim ran helter sketter for dear life but got
severely burnt to the point that he couldn’t go to the office for months,
telling everybody who cares to listen that, it was a domestic accident at home,
the money bag is however being challenged to take a half nude shot of himself
should he object to the story.
As if the calamity that befell
him on the alleged ritual night was not enough, the marabouts were said to have
seen the disaster as a bad omen capable of troubling his business empire and
not too long to that time was when the national carrier, Air Nigeria which he
was managing was grounded plus so many other strange happenings, looming and which
the source has in her kitty to reveal.
Jite Usman.
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