The former managing director of Alpha-Beta Consulting, Oladapo Apara, who had previously accused the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, of fraud, has finally endorsed his presidential bid.
In 2020 Apara was sacked as the managing director of Alpha Beta Consulting in 2018, after accusing Tinubu of owning the firm by proxy.
The development led to his dismissal and withholding of his share profit for the period he worked for the firm.
He also accused the company and its owners of money laundering, tax evasion, forgery, and a number of other corporate fraudulent practices.
In a surprising twist in September 2022, Apara withdrew the case from the court after reaching an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with Tinubu.
In an article published in ThisDay Newspaper, on Sunday, Apara, who described Tinubu as the ‘best man’ to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, said he picked Tinubu as the “most suitable” contestant after a “dispassionate assessment” of all other presidential candidates.
He commended Tinubu’s record as a former Governor of Lagos State and playing an instrumental role in making the state Africa’s fifth largest economy.
The former Alpha-Beta MD said with a Tinubu presidency, Nigerians are poised to see more foreign capital and investment pouring into the country like never before.
Apara wrote: “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.”