#ProudlyNaija: Olusegun Obasanjo Orders for Made-in-Aba Shoes

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has made an order for Made-in-Aba shoes as a way of supporting the Buy Nigeria and Grow the Naira.

Sun News reports that Obasanjo made the order through the Chief Marketing Officer of Made-in-Aba Product, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State during the 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum in Lagos.

Speaking as one of the panelists at the forum, Obasanjo said to Ikpeazu: “Governor, I listened to you and I commend you for what you’re doing in Abia. Please keep doing what you’ve told us you’re doing. So, Governor Abia, you have to send a pair of the shoes to me. I use size 42.”

His remark prompted an outburst of laughter in the audience. The ex-president’s special request was a response to what Ikpeazu said in his address to the gathering.

Freedomonline, a newsblog, in a report stated that while making his speech at the event, the Abia State Governor said that Aba remains the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) capital of Nigeria, where young Nigerians are engaged in the business of making of shoes, clothing and other products.

The governor added that a firm that has an order to supply up to 50,000 military boots is currently in Aba, where Aba shoemakers are making the production.

His words: “I am happy to announce here that Aba, which is the commercial nerve centre of the Abia State and Old Eastern Region of Nigeria, is also the SME capital of Nigeria, where young people are in the business of making shoes, bags and clothes, including the one I am wearing.

“Let me also announce here that a private firm, that has an order to supply 50,000 military boots is currently in Aba, where our shoemakers are in production for the firm.”