Windscreen cleaner turns "Style Doctor"

Abdullah as a windscreen cleaner

When you hear "dress the way you want to be addressed" what readily comes to mind?
Expensive does not mean classy. Comfort should be the main criteria (don't wear rag tho...lol). Wearing something that makes you confident is key no matter your job or status. If you value yourself and your image, take good care of that image. Your image like it or not, creates a certain opinion about you. That opinion stands between you landing a better opportunity or not in life. The case of Abdullahi Olayotan isn't far from this fact.

Despite being a windscreen cleaner in Abeokuta, Abdullahi unlike other folks who do his kind of job, chose to be different in his dress code for work. Normally you see young boys in traffic on Lagos roads cleaning windscreen of cars stuck in traffic for a little change they'd collect. Most of them would look so dirty with tattered clothes on,  looking like beggars but such wasn't the case of Abdullahi. Rather he chose to always dress smart with suit, clean shirt and a bow tie (you'd think he's the CEO of one big company), not minding his kind of work or what anyone thinks.

Few days ago when his picture while on duty as usual went viral, Uche Nnaji also known as The Style Doctor,  who is the Creative Director and founder of OUCH Fashion and Lifestyle Brand,  initiated a search for Abdullahi, requesting anyone who knows his whereabouts to link him up as a job was waiting for him at OUCH.

On an Instagram post, the Style doctor outlined seven (7) reasons why Abdullahi deserves a job at OUCH, one of the reasons according to him is the fact that Abdullahi made an effort to dress better than his present situation which indicates that he is a man with vision and therefore needs a push.

When photographer, Daniel Sync took a snapshot of Abdullahi while on duty, little did he know he was starting a life changing process for him. As the Internet played host to Abdullahi's photo, it did not take long before he was welcomed at OUCH's Lekki outlet by the Boss himself.

Abdullahi with Uche Nnaji 

Welcoming the University of Ilorin dropout turned windscreen cleaner, Uche Nnaji noted that Abdullahi loves fashion and is very willing to learn. He further offered to train him for free as a style doctor. A training that will avail him the opportunity of learning what it takes to be stylish as well as become a professional fashion stylist. "I simply want to teach him how to fish by eventually acquiring sartorial skills and knowledge just like me" Uche said.

Since the event of this great opportunity, the story of Abdullahi have been featured in lots of local and international news platforms including Yahoo! News which described it as "social media's latest success story" and also CNN.

We wish Abdullahi Olayotan well as he begins his journey into the Nigerian fashion industry and also appreciate Uche Nnaji for taking interest in bettering his life. More gestures like this go along way....

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Photo credit: Daniel Sync/Sync Media House