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The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, was at the Aso Rock Villa on Tuesday evening to see President Bola Tinubu.

Dangote, who arrived just minutes before 07:00pm, departed about 30 minutes later without briefing the press.

It would be their first face-to-face meeting at the Villa since the president toured the 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote Refinery in Lagos on June 5.

No agenda was revealed, but the encounter follows a string of blunt comments from Africa’s richest man about the nation’s downstream sector and his plan to upend fuel distribution.

On July 11, Dangote told visiting executives that the state-owned plants in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna were beyond rescue despite roughly $18bn in rehabilitation spending.


“They may never operate properly again,” he warned, calling for bold policy shifts.

In mid-June, he revealed that Dangote Refinery will begin supplying petrol and diesel straight to retailers and large users from August 15, bypassing long-established fuel traders.

Industry groups such as the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria protested the move, citing potential job losses.

The 67-year-old billionaire built a continental empire in cement, sugar and flour before investing a reported $20bn into the Lekki-based refinery—Africa’s largest single-train plant.

bjdon:
The message from Jagaban will be simple, ' If you want crude to flow to your refiniary, you better get all the Northern Emirs on side for my re-election'

Softmirror:
Dangote will do everything within his powers to see that Tinubu gets re elected.

Softmirror:
Dangote will do everything within his powers to see that Tinubu gets re elected.

Denalarian:
This APC guys are really playing gods with no action towards positivity. How can $18b be injected into a project without any outcome? Yet you want same Nigerians to still trust this government?

Bowwow11:
The business mugul going to see the president for a business transaction.

bjdon:
The message from Jagaban will be simple, ' If you want crude to flow to your refiniary, you better get all the Northern Emirs on side for my re-election'

bjdon:
The message from Jagaban will be simple, ' If you want crude to flow to your refiniary, you better get all the Northern Emirs on side for my re-election'

Tinubumustgo:
Dangote has never opposed any government.

He's the government himself .

AMINDA:
Few months ago, you all were out to kill Dangote's refinery preferring importation from Malta while accusing him of monopoly. Today, you're famzing him because he stood on business and resisted the sabotage. No one is fooled. Not even Dangote himself.

plantist:
Yeah Tinubu and his people are saboteurs that's why he named the road leading to his refinery after Tinubu.