ATIKU 2019: THE PERSONALITIES THAT LIES WITHIN AND TRUTH BEHIND THE MYTH- Yahaya Muhammad Abubakar Misau

Most people often wonders how Turaki was so successful which was the main reason a lot of politicians and public office holders hold a grouch of him wondering his success. 

I took my time to bring out how it all started a long ago. Turaki was such a person with greater vision. When he set goals he work extra hard to see it was actualized unlike his counterpart in business and politics. 

 

Atiku started out in the real estate business during his early days as a Customs Officer. In 1974 he applied for and received a 31,000 naira loan to build his first house in Yola, which he put up for rent. From proceeds of the rent he purchased another plot, and built a second house. He continued this way, building a sizeable portfolio of property in Yola.

In 1981 he moved into agriculture, acquiring 2,500 hectares of land near Yola to start a maize and cotton farm. The business fell on hard times and closed in 1986. "My first foray into agriculture, in the 1980s, ended in failure," he wrote in an April 2014 blog.

He then ventured into trading, buying and selling truckloads of rice, flour and sugar.

His most important business move came while he was a Customs Officer at the Apapa Ports. Gabrielle Volpi, an Italian businessman in Nigeria, invited him to set up Nigeria Container Services (NICOTES), a logistics company operating within the Ports. NICOTES later re branded as INTELS.

Atiku's business empire also includes a beverage manufacturing plant in Yola,  as well as an animal feed factory.

This was how it started and it didn't just stopped there. Atiku ventures into so many business till date which everyday keeps generating millions to him.

For someone to doubt the capacity of such person like Atiku in exploring opportunities and economy building must have been day dreaming and unwise of him to attest to that.