The reason Why No Igbo Man Is Mentioned In Forbes’ Billionaires List, See.
The reason Why No Igbo Man Is Mentioned In Forbes’ Billionaires List, See.
By Rowlandgate.
The battle to the 2023 presidential elections heats up, there has been a nationwide clamor for power to rotate to the southeast. For Reno Omokri, this political power is all the Igbo man needs to completely showcase their selves as a dominant ethnic group in the country.
In his opinion, he definitely agrees with the ingenious powers of the Igbo nation, their enterprising spirit, and the fact that they are economically sound.
But all those will not mean anything without political power.
According to Reno, no Igbo man is mentioned in Forbes.
Forbes is the leading billionaires’ ‘record-keeping’ company that tracks and monitors billionaires throughout the world.
According to the forces lists of richest Africans, we can only find Nigerians from other tribes apart from the Igbo people
See the list of the first 10 here:
1 Aliko Dangote $10.1 billion Nigeria Dangote Cement
2 Nassef Onsi Sawiris $8 billion Egypt Orascom Construction Industries
3 Mike Adenuga $7.7 billion Nigeria Globacom, Conoil
4 Nicky Oppenheimer $7.7 billion South Africa Formerly the chairman of De Beers
5 Johann Rupert $6.5 billion South Africa Compagnie Financiere Richemont, Cartier, Montblanc
6 Nathan Kirsh $5.1 billion Eswatini Jetro Holdings
7 Issad Rebrab $4.4 billion Algeria Cevital
8 Mohamed Mansour $3.3 billion Egypt Mansour Group
9 Abdulsamad Rabiu $3.1 billion Nigeria BUA Group
10 Naguib Onsi Sawiris $3 billion Egypt Orascom TMT Investments, Euronews.
Only Dangote and Adenuga are mentioned in the first 10 in Africa
Further down, as released in the 2020 version of the exclusive list of world billionaires, we have two more Nigerians added which are Abdul Samad Rabiu and Folorunsho Alakija who made the highly coveted list. Odogwublog.com
Amongst the four, Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group retained his spot as the World’s richest black person with a fortune of USD10.1 billion. Mike Adenuga, Chairman of Globacom came in as second in Nigeria and third in Africa with a fortune of 7.7 billion whilst Abdul Samad Rabiu of BUA Group was 3rd in Nigeria and 9th in Africa with a fortune of 3.13bn – moving up 8 places from last year’s ranking. Folorunsho Alakija of Famfa Oil completes the list of Forbes billionaires from Nigeria with a fortune of 1bn dollars coming in at No. 25 in Africa.
With the absence of the Igbo man on the list, Reno thinks the only thing the Igbo needs to make the highly converted list is getting political power.
While this may be true to an extent, It also shows how the Nigerian political circle has been skewed to favor a particular group and this will also promote nepotism.
We all know the Igbo men are true businessmen and have all it takes to usurp power from the business world but will they achieve this feat if the 2023 presidential baton is ceded to the region?
This is one question only the Igbo man has to answer.
