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Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje with the support of business mogul, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, Kano Emirate and the Kano State Council of Imams, have reconciled the differences between two illustrious sons of Kano, Aliko Dangote and Abdussamad Isyaka Rabi’u (BUA).
According to a statement signed by Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Comrade Abba Anwar, on Thursday disclosed that the reconciliation meeting took place at Kano Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja on Wednesday. This he said should put a stop to all rumours making the rounds that the duo was in dispute over the sugar industry in the country.
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Published 15 April 2021
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has waded into the dispute between Dangote and BUA companies owned by two business moguls from the state.
This is in order to resolve the lingering conflict among the two Kano State prominent indigenes Aliko Dangote and Abdussamad Isyaka-Rabi’u over the establishment of a Sugar plant by BUA.
A statement by Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor on Thursday in Kano, said the reconciliation meeting took place on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Kano Emirate and the Kano State Council of Imams joined the governor in the reconciliation meeting.
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The latest clash between two of Nigeria’s richest men, Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu, over sugar production in Nigeria has been settled by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano and Aminu Dantata, a prominent northern billionaire who is Mr Dangote’s uncle.
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the dispute between the duo is over who controls the sugar market in Africa’s biggest economy.
While Mr Dangote accuses his competitor of attempting to appropriate an undue advantage, Mr Rabiu says Africa’s richest man wants to monopolise the market and manipulate prices. Mr Dangote denied the price-fixing allegation in a statement.
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