GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has said that the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, came to Lagos with nothing about 45 years ago, but he is now Africa’s richest man.
“Dangote came to Lagos with nothing about 45 years ago, but he is now Africa’s richest man,” Sanwo-Olu jocularly said in his speech at the commissioning of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, the world’s largest single-train refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, today.
He described Dangote as a detribalised man who saw the wealth of the state, adding that Dangote is a Lagosian who has invested in the prosperity of the state and Nigeria.
Earlier, Dangote thanked Lagos State government, starting from the era of President-elect Bola Tinubu, who governed Lagos between 1999 and 2007, till Sanwo-Olu.
