DoctorBishop2031

President Peter Obi, My Inspiration! As a student in campus, I lived in self-delusion. I started out with comedy skits (the only skit makers then were Basketmouth and Bovi), and I did a horrible job. After my failed comedy career, I started doing battle rap. I’d not say my rap was that bad, cause I never lost a battle, but I knew I couldn’t compete on a global stage. My attempt to create a unique sound (rapping to uhuru styled beats) wasn’t working. One day, HE Peter Obi came to our campus for a business seminar. Normally I wouldn’t attend a seminar then, but bcos I thought he’d be sharing money to SUG, I went. Normally when big men or politicians come, they share money. Well, he didn’t give shi shi. Instead, he gave the greatest speech I’ve ever heard in my life. He spoke about his business journey and I was inspired. Then he said something that stuck with me. “The marketcap of Facebook is bigger than the GDP of Nigeria”. When I heard it, I did math in my head. If I could create 1% of Facebook, I’d be a billionaire. I went on google, I checked wizkid net worth. It was like $1M then. I checked Davido, like $2M. I checked American artistes, their money still small. I checked Mark Zuckerberg, billions. I deleted all the beats in my phone, downloaded EDX and right in the seminar there, registered for a coding course. Ladies and gentlemen, that was how I left rapping to enter tech. After 2 months after the seminar, I launched my first startup. It was a campus newspaper and online radio. I had about 100 volunteers join and work on the project. It was very popular on campus. Obviously crashed, but I learnt from it. If not for Peter Obi, I’d have been smoking weed with other middle aged upcoming rappers, arguing Wizkid vs Davido and chasing shadows. This happened way before 2019 elections, so it was a no brainer. When he joined PDP, I registered too. When he was picked as VP, I mobilized everyone I could for him. I also did mobilization at my polling unit in 2019, and PDP swept the unit. 2023, I flew down to Nigeria to vote for him. 40+ hours journey, but I didn’t care. I also donated as much as I could to the campaign. Peter Obi made me move from rapping to tech, and pulled me and my family out of everlasting sapa. I’m forever grateful to him for inspiring me. My prayer is that God will continue to use him to inspire more Africans to create innovative companies. Isee On behalf of myself and my family, I wish you a happy birthday Sir.