Lasun Alagbe
A presidential candidate in the last election, Tope Fasua, has offered to give needy Nigerians N5,000 each to cushion the effect of the current lockdown.
Fasua announced the gesture on Sunday evening and about 300 applied within 20 minutes.
While many of them are showering prayers and encomiums on him, some feel concerned that those who do not really need the money might still apply.
They thus dissuade such folks from doing so.
“Please leave your account details here for 5k each from Tuesday. We will survive this by God’s grace one way or another,” the presidential candidate for the Abundant Party noted on Facebook.
Fasua’s profile on Wikipedia indicates that he is a Nigerian businessman, economist, writer and 2019 Nigeria Presidential candidate for Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP).
He is the founder and CEO of Global Analytics Consulting Limited, an international consulting firm with its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.
As a political reformer, he founded the ANRP and got elected since February 2018, to serve as the National Chairman of the Party.
Fasua has authored numerous columns on newspapers and six books.
Fasua was born and raised in Lagos. For his secondary school education, he attended Army Comprehensive High School in his hometown Akure in 1985 before he went further to study Economics in Ondo State University, where he successfully graduated and received award for the best overall result in the department, faculty and entire school in 1991.
In 1996, Fasua became a qualified accountant after attending the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria to obtain ACA(Associate Chartered Accountant).
In between Fasua’s movement from his long banking practice into starting his Consulting Firm, he attended London Metropolitan University to gain master’s degree in Financial Markets and Derivatives in which he got Distinction in 2006.
Harvard Business School, University of Groningen, Lonestar Academy, Texas are some the academic institutions where Fasua has attended for executive programs.
Currently, he is a fellow Academic with his Ph.D in Public Policy and Administration, in view at Walden University.
