CHAIRMAN, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has explained why he has stayed away from politics even when he had the opportunity to make a success out of it.
 
While expressing gratitude to Nigeria, a country, which he said has boosted and blessed him, Ekeh said: “I would have been governor of my state long ago, but politics is not my calling. However, I support progressive, ideas-driven politicians across the country.”
 Ekeh stated this while responding to questions during a forum of select mentees of young entrepreneurs over the weekend.
 
He recalled his early beginnings in Nigeria’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) market after returning from the United Kingdom.
 The Zinox chief, who turns 70 on February 22, took the mentees down memory lane, recalling how he introduced desktop publishing, shifted the nation’s publishing landscape from analogue to digital and scaled up his business into what has become a conglomerate today.
 
Ekeh, an Imo state indigene, was in Owerri at the weekend with other dignitaries, including Vice President Kashim Shettima and many governors, politicians and captains of industry at the grand finale of the Imo at 50 celebrations, where he was honoured with the Distinguished Star of Imo State (DSI) award.
 While responding to questions on the state of the economy, Ekeh commended President Bola Tinubu for the courage to begin reforms from the day he assumed office, arguing that any delay would have further shrunk the economy and completely wiped out investors’ confidence in the Nigerian economy.
  
He referenced the recent verdicts from the World Bank and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as evidence that what indigenous entrepreneurs have been saying about the Tinubu reforms as truly progressive is not a farce.