CNN features dapper car windscreen washer, Abdullahi Olatoyan

 
CNN has featured Nigeria's Abdullahi Olatoyan, the young man who
was spotted washing car windscreens dressed in a suit and bow tie.
Read what they wrote about him after the cut...

From CNN

In Congo, Sapeurs (the Society of tastemakers and elegant people),
are known for their love of luxury tailoring even while performing
the most mundane of tasks. But one car windscreen cleaner in
Nigeria's Abeokuta is competing for this title.

Abdulahi Olatoyan, who is a university dropout in his early thirties,
turned to the streets to make a living and save enough money to
start his own business. Wearing a bright polka dot suit and red
velvet bow tie, Olatoyan says he hopes to return to school one day
and finish his studies. "I didn't want to be wandering the streets
doing nothing" he explains, adding he wanted to make sure people
knew he was serious about his work.

"He is the first suited windscreen cleaner I have ever seen", says
photographer Daniel Sync, who decided to take photos. "We need
more innovative citizens like Abdulahi in Nigeria", he added.

Sync spotted the cleaner on his way to work and rushed to the
office to pick up his camera. The photographs have since gone viral
- with Olatoyan being offered a job at Nigerian clothing line OUCH.

The label's designer Uche Nnaji posted on Instagram that Olatoyan
could come work at his company, and listed seven reasons why he
deserved the job. He asked his 18,000 followers to help track down
the elegant squeegee man.

Olatoyan has now been offered a position as 'style doctor' at the
menswear brand: "I have a team of young people that I call style
doctors," says Nnaji, "when I saw him I thought this person is
someone that likes looking good and can style others". "I saw
attitude in him and thought if this man is doing this just to go and
wash cars, he is someone that will work with a different mindset
even if he's doing the least popular job in the company" he added.

Olatoyan will soon begin offering his own distinctive opinions on
style and taste to customers.