KANO: Ganduje, Adebayo, others settle Dangote, Rabiu’s ‘sugar war’

GOVERNOR Umar Ganduje, businessman Aminu Dantata, Trade and Industry Minister Otunba Niyi Adebayo, and other prominent sons of Kano, have settled the latest clash between two of Nigeria’s richest men, Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu (BUA), over sugar production in the country.

The pair had been in supremacy tussle over who controls the sugar market in Africa’s biggest economy.

While Dangote accuses his competitor of attempting to appropriate an undue advantage, Rabiu says Africa’s richest man, Dangote, wants to monopolise the market and manipulate prices.

The former denied the price-fixing allegation in a statement.

Abba Anwar, Ganduje’s spokesperson, said in a statement this afternoon that the Kano Emirate and Kano State Council of Imams resolved the rift between the two men who hail from Kano, thanks to Dantata’s intervention.

Anwar said the reconciliation meeting took place at the Kano governor’s lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, yesterday.

According to the document, “they all dismissed allegation that Dangote was planning to see to the increase of sugar price, through pressuring BUA to succumb to the increment. They described that allegation as baseless and lacking any iota of truth.”

Anwar added that “all the two business moguls agreed to work together as brothers for the growth and development of the nation at large. Assuring that, henceforth, there would be no differences, that could cause any disharmony between them.”

The commerce, trade and investment minister, representative of the Kano Emirate, Aminu Agundi, Chairman of the Council of Kano Imams, Muhammad Adam, the chief imam of Sheikh Ahmadu Tijjani Friday Mosque, Kofar Mata, Kano and the chairman of NEPZA, Adamu Panda, attended the meeting.