Meet Obi “Dr Bugatti” Okeke, the Biafran man who’s Floyd Mayweather’s premier car dealer (Photos) For many who do not know,...
For many who do not know, boxing heavyweight champion, Floyd
Mayweather is a lover of really expensive and exotic cars, and he does not shy
away from showing it. He has a fleet of cars ranging from Rolls Royce to
Bugatti and Lamborghini’s, however what many do not know about his set of
automobile acquisitions is that he buys them from a preferred dealer who is a
Biafran named Obi Okeke aka Dr Bugatti.
He was born to a Biafran father and an American mother. At
age 5, he sojourned to the United State as a refugee during the Nigeria war of aggression
against Biafra which over 3 million Biafran were killed
He came back to Biafra after the war and later traveled to
Switzerland for his high school education. While in Switzerland, he developed a
love for exotic cars. Dr. Bugatti has, on several occasions, made headlines for
his business of buying and selling top- of-the-range cars to and from
celebrities. Among his numerous transaction with celebrities was a recent deal
where he purchased a Bugatti Veyron for N900 million ($2.5 million) from film
star and politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Other celebrities that Dr. Bugatti has sold luxury cars to
include Chris Tucker, Ellen DeGeneres, Jessica Simpson, Floyd Mayweather and
many others.
It is on record that he has sold 39 cars to Floyd
Mayweather. And they include 3 Bugatti Veyrons valued at $6.2 million and a
$3.2M Ferrari Enzo. He has also sold to Mayweather several Rolls-Royces and
Bentleys. Obi Okeke started his car sale career started in 1987 as a Chevrolet
dealer and eventually moved on to manage stores for Ferrari, Maserati, Lexus,
Mercedes-Benz before starting out on his own.
Okeke has been Floyd Mayweather’s premier car dealer as far
back as 2015 and the boxing star has purchased nothing less than 39 cars from
him. Doctor Bugatti as he is fondly called is the co-owner of Fusion Luxury
Motors, one of the biggest exotic car dealers in US. See more photos of the two
together;
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