Popular nightclub owner Obi Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana, has explained how he made his money and has also reacted to speculations that he is involved in money rituals.
The businessman who opened up in an interview with BBC Pidgin also talked about his mother’s talk-of-the-town burial stating that he and his siblings gave their mother a burial that became the talk of the town because they had promised her that her 80th birthday would be a carnival.
According to him, she died at 78, so they decided to fulfil their promise by giving her the kind of burial she got as she fulfilled the role of father and mother after their father died 15 years ago.
He said that after bagging a degree in Political Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, kept looking for a job after NYSC but couldn’t find so he started doing “small small mama put” (restaurant) in Abuja where he did his youth service, after which he started a “beer parlour” at Garden, Abuja.
He said their source of livelihood, the beer parlour, was soon demolished “through El-Rufai” and he thought it was over at the time but he opened “Ibiza” which then birthed “Cubana”.
Obi Cubana explained that not every business he got into worked. Some failed, he said, others succeeded.
While reacting to the publicity around his mother’s burial and comments from some that he and his friends did rituals or got their money through illegal means, Obi Cubana said hard work is the only way he got his money.
Miracle doesn’t give money because that pastor needs the money more. Native doctor cannot give you money because his children are the ones who fetch water from the stream. How can he give you what he doesn’t have? Work hard. Work hard.
As for those asking him to “cut soap” for them, he told them to work hard and be consistent.
“Cut soap” is slang used to ask a successful person to give you a bit of what they are using that makes them successful. It originates from the claims that some young fraudsters visit ritualists who give them soap to bathe with for optimal success.
Obi Cubana said: “If you are in your 20s, work now. I am 46 years. I have done my first half. I don’t know why someone who is just 20 years will say he has not made it when he still has 50 years 60 years ahead.
“There is no soap to cut for anybody, there is no soap anywhere, work, pray, be good, make your own soap,” he added.
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