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Activist Deji Adeyanju has invited Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote to join the #EndBadGovernance protest currently ongoing nationwide as the Dangote Refinery continues to face stumbling blocks in the sector.
This comes after the controversy that has surrounded the supply of crude oil to the Dangote Refinery and other refineries across the country.
Adeyanju extended the invite to Dangote during his appearance on ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast which aired on Monday, August 6.
He said Dangote who has crushed other businesses in the past is now crying foul and pretending to be an activist.
Recall that young Nigerians on August 1, began their “End Bad Governance in Nigeria” protest. The protest, now on its sixth day has recorded some very peculiar events.
“Aliko Dangote is a shameless guy. No matter how you look at it, he uses Nigeria’s money to be Africa’s richest man of the year. If you open the treasury of Nigeria to Nedu, Nedu will also be the richest man in Africa,” Adeyanju said.
“All these years, this is what he has been doing and he doesn’t like competition. Let us use the cement as an example. He has killed so many businesses so I dont know why he is now crying and pretending that he loves the country or he is an activist. For us, we dont discriminate, We have an extra large t-shirt for him so he can join us at Eagles Square. If he is genuinely aggrieved, he should come and join us,” he concluded.
Nigerians who are frustrated with the economic situation in the country decided to take to the streets to protest against the current state of affairs in the country. Under the hashtag #EndbadgovernanceinNigeria, they have been exercising their fundamental rights to air out their grievances with the government.
Since the protests began there has been a long list of abnormal incidents, as each person involved in the protest has their own way of expressing their grievance with the government.
Meanwhile, a coalition of civil society organizations (CSO) have collaborated to establish a situation room to monitor the compliance of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited with the directive to sell crude oil to the Dangote refinery.
During a facility tour of the refinery at the weekend, leaders of the 28 CSOs said the disposition of the NNPC and the regulatory agencies portends that they “deliberately held down the nation’s refineries so that importation of petroleum products could continue”.
This comes after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on July 29 approved a proposal by President Bola Tinubu for NNPC to sell crude oil to the Dangote refinery and other refineries in naira.
Speaking on behalf of the coalition, Solomon Adodo, convener of Rise Up for A United Nigeria, expressed concern over the regulatory agency’s support for petroleum importers — rather than local refineries — amid a forex crisis, causing high petroleum product prices.
