Billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote has accepted an invite from Nigerian content material creator Adebayo Ridwan, popularly generally known as Bae U Barbie, to look on his YouTube present, Curiosity Made Me Ask. Dangote accepted the invitation throughout Bae U’s go to to Dangote Refinery in Lagos on Monday, after the content material creator urged……
Billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote has accepted an invite from Nigerian content material creator Adebayo Ridwan, popularly generally known as Bae U Barbie, to look on his YouTube present, Curiosity Made Me Ask.
Dangote accepted the invitation throughout Bae U’s go to to Dangote Refinery in Lagos on Monday, after the content material creator urged him to interact youthful Nigerians via platforms they often watch.
Bae U mentioned most of the billionaire’s media interviews had been performed on platforms that didn’t attraction to youthful audiences, regardless of their curiosity in his enterprise and plans to spend money on the corporate via its proposed preliminary public providing.
“Most of the interviews we’ve seen you have been on platforms that my generation don’t watch,” Bae U mentioned.
Clarifying that he was not asking Dangote to alter his media staff, the content material creator urged him to find time for an interview on his present.
“I’m not saying you should sack your media team. No, but you know, when you finish,” he mentioned earlier than asking when the businessman would seem on Curiosity Made Me Ask.
Responding, Dangote acknowledged the significance of reaching youthful audiences, describing them as the way forward for Nigeria and Africa.
“Honestly, the future that we have is actually you, the youth. We, our own generation, really, we have not really done very well for Nigeria and also for Africa. That’s the truth,” he mentioned.
The businessman mentioned older generations wanted to share their experiences with youthful Nigerians to assist them perceive the nation’s improvement and be taught from the previous.
“So we need to sit down with some of you and discuss our own experience with you,” he added.
Dangote additionally noticed that many younger Nigerians had restricted data of some previous political leaders and historic occasions, citing former President Olusegun Obasanjo for example.
Bae U interrupted him, saying, “Thanks to me. I gave him the platform, sir,” in an obvious reference to his interview with Obasanjo.
Dangote subsequently agreed that content material platforms focusing on youthful audiences ought to kind a part of his media engagements.
“So really, you are right. Going forward, this sort of audience is the audience that we, somebody like me, should actually face,” he mentioned.
He additionally spoke in regards to the assist and respect he receives from younger individuals, together with throughout his travels overseas, saying he typically agrees to take images with members of the general public.
Recalling an expertise from his youth when he and his grandfather met outstanding personalities in Washington and requested to take images with them, Dangote mentioned the encounter influenced his perspective in direction of individuals who method him at this time.
He additionally dismissed ideas {that a} {photograph} of him shared on social media was an try to hunt extra blessings.
“I wasn’t begging for anything. What I was saying, I was just saying that, God, you have overblessed me,” he mentioned.
Dangote ultimately indicated his willingness to look on Bae U’s present, the place the dialog might deal with his business trip and the experiences behind his success.
“We will come,” he mentioned in response to the invitation.
He added that the proposed dialog ought to enable younger individuals to ask questions on how he constructed his enterprise and achieved success.
