By Our Correspondent
Fomer President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerian youths not to allow educational challenges deter them from achieving their goals.
Obasanjo gave the advise in his remark at the 25th remembrance of a fomer Asiwaju of Egbaland, Alhaji Abdul Rasak Olajide Sanusi, held at the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL).
Alhaji Sanusi; a Nigerian businessman and a philanthropist was born in 1932 in Alabata, Odeda Local Government of Ogun state.
He was the founder of the defunct Pioneer Chemical Manufacturing Company (now Sanusi Rubber Works Nigeria Industrial Products Agencies Company (NIPACO), manufacturer of bathroom and sanitary fittings and home appliances.
Obasanjo who was the Chairman of the 25th remembrance occasion noted that the Late Sanusi rose to became one of the country's foremost businessmen and influentials despite his lack of secondary education.
The former president added that the deceased during his lifetime was a able to achieve what a university graduate could not achieve despite being handicapped by education.
Giving a brief background of the deceased, Obasanjo told youths in the nation to defy all odds to maximize their potentials and attain their goals with or without education.
He said " If there was any self made man, Abdul Rasak Sanusi was a self made man. If there was an industrialist, he was an industrialist, of there was a philanthropist, Abdul Rasak Sanusi was a philanthropist. He was a lover of his town, his family and his friends.
"The question we should be asking ourselves now is that why are people like Sanusi now scarce to come by these days. He was handicapped by education bet he did not allow that to be a hindrance, he surmounted the challenges of education and achieved what even those who went to the university could not achieve and what lesson do you learn form that; Alhaji Sanusi surmounted all the challenges that he encountered. "
At the well attended and colorful occasion, The deceased family formally launched the Abdul Radak Olajide Sanusi Foundation in remembrance of the deceased.
The foundation, according to them one is focused towards empowering students of Alabata (the hometown of the Late Sanusi), who wish to have tertiary education to fulfill their dreams.
The Foundation then presented prices to 12 best students of the Alabata High School.
The family gave bursary cash to 12 students of Alaba Community High School from JSS1 to SSS3 and a laptop each to best teachers from the same school.
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