He maintained that the essence of nation-building was to make failure an acceptable concept and to extract lessons from it. The business tycoon said Nigerians must stop assuming the country cannot work and instead take responsibility for making it work. We stop condemning the country and believing the country cannot go right. He said success in business and nation-building requires the courage to take risks, noting that fear of failure often prevents people from trying at all. He later co-founded Ocean and Oil Group, which evolved into Oando Plc, now a leading integrated energy group in sub-Saharan Africa.
