By Seun Opejobi Popular social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, aka VeryDarkMan, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administ...
By Seun Opejobi
Popular social media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, aka
VeryDarkMan, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of humbling
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.
VeryDarkMan said Tinubu’s administration brought Dangote
close to tears due to challenges his refinery is encountering.
On Saturday, Dangote disclosed that he did not enjoy any
incentive from the Nigerian government to build his $20bn refinery sited at the
Lekki Free Trade Zone.
Receiving leadership of the House of Representatives, led by
Speaker Tajudeen Abbas and his Deputy Benjamin Kalu, Dangote said he bought the
land of the refinery for $100 million.
He also alleged that several regulations by the Nigerian
government allegedly targeted the functionality of the refinery.
Reacting in a video, VeryDarkMan said: “Tinubu’s regime
brought Africa’s richest man, Dangote close to tears during an interview, the
economy is so bad that Dangote was reminiscing when his friend cautioned him
against investing in Nigeria.
“I watched the interview where he said he bought the land
for the refinery with $100,000 million. My question to the Nigerian government
is that when he was building the refinery, why wasn’t he told that there was no
crude oil for him? After building the refinery, you told him no crude oil is in
Delta State, Edo, Imo, Akwa Ibom, and so on.
“Even with him going to Brazil to source crude oil, the high
and mighty informed those there that he had no licence, and now he wants to
sell it. But the issue is that the money he claimed to have used in building
the refinery is public funds and not his personal money. “
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