I made you an extremely rich person Obasanjo tells African's wealthiest lady, Folorunsho Alakija

I made you an extremely rich person Obasanjo tells African's wealthiest lady, Folorunsho Alakija 



Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday told Mrs Folorunsho Alakija who is Africa's wealthiest lady, that his
organization made her among the numerous extremely rich person Nigeria in a matter of seconds has. 

The previous President who was a visitor speaker at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, said this while responding to claims by Alakija that the Obasanjo organization disappointed her moves to investigate the oil area in the wake of getting her oil permit from the lae military tyrant, Sani Abacha. 

As indicated by Alakija who was additionally a specialist, the Obasanjo organization wrongfully took an oil piece allotted to her organization after her family had contributed every one of its reserve funds to strike oil in business amount. Vanguard cites her as saying 

"This oil square is in 5000 feet profundity of water and was to a great degree hard to investigate. It required 15 years from the investment that we were granted the permit in 1993 till 2008 when we struck the main oil When this occasion happened, 60 for every penny out of our 60 for every penny value in the business, was powerfully taken from us by the administration of the day without due process. We needed to battle back by going to court to look for review and it took an additional 12 years for equity to be served to support us. In every one of those years it was my trust in God, my steadiness and the support of my family that made them go," she said. 

Obasanjo answered Alakija when he was given the mouthpiece to talk at the occasion. He said 

"There is an adage in my part of the world that when a saying touches you and you neglected to answer, then you are a quitter. For you to come here and say that, for no cause at all, you were denied what was legitimately yours, is not reasonable. I don't recognize you in any way shape or form and there is no reason I would have denied you what legitimately had a place with you. In this way, you have battled, and you have struck oil. God favor your heart. My pleasure is to have the capacity to make Nigerian very rich person and I generally say it that my point, when I was in government was to make 50 Nigerian extremely rich people. Lamentably I fizzled. I made just 25 and Madam, you are one of them" he said

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