Business and politics often make uneasy companions, but in Ogun State, they sometimes collide like a fully loaded cement truck skidding on a wet road. Former Governor Ibikunle Amosun, never one to back down from a fight, has now fired back at Aliko Dangote’s claim that his administration twice demolished the billionaire’s cement factory in Itori.
The former governor’s media office dismissed Dangote’s complaints as “obvious mischief” and accused him of seeking to operate “above the law.” The argument is simple: the state government enforces regulations, and even Africa’s richest man is not exempt. If structures were demolished, Amosun insists, it was because they were built without proper approvals. If Dangote has evidence to the contrary, he is welcome to present it.
Previously, many reports praised the incumbent governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun for bringing back Dangote to the state. Some of these praises, being at the expense of Amosun, might have hurt.