ATIKU ABUBAKAR: “HOW I BUILT A HOUSE FOR MY MOTHER WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD”

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice-President and now APC presidential aspirant, has revealed in his memoir, ‘My Life’, how he began making money at age 15 and was able to build a house for his mother at that age. This revelation is contained in Chapter 6 (titled ‘Making Money’) of the book. Atiku said at a very young age, he had a business sense and this made him to apply for and obtained a Federal Housing loan which amounted to N31,000, an equivalent of his salary for 5 years as a customs officer.

In the chapter, Atiku stated that, “I was granted a plot of land by the Gongola State Government at Yola Government Reserved Area. I hired a foreman and began building my first house. With close personal supervision, the bungalow was completed on time and to my taste. I rented it out immediately. The rent I collected in advance on the house was substantial enough for me to purchase a second plot. I built my second house and rented it out. I continued to plow back the rent into the building of new houses and within a few years, I had built eight houses in choice areas of Yola. I also built a new house for my mother and rebuilt the old mud house I bought for her in Ganye when I was a 15-year-old student.”

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Deji Sadiq, a.k.a DEJI OF LAGOS is a LASU trained Economist turned freelance journalist, a Blogger, an information strategist, a public affairs analyst and a committed activist with a passion for equal opportunities.