Nigerian content material creator Adebayo Ridwan, popularly referred to as Bae U Barbie, has invited billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote to seem on his YouTube present, Curiosity Made Me Ask.
Bae U made the invitation whereas asking Dangote about his media appearances, the necessity to interact youthful Nigerians considering his enterprise, and the deliberate funding in his firm.
The content material creator famous that lots of Dangote’s interviews had been on platforms that youthful audiences may not usually watch, regardless of their curiosity in investing in his enterprise and collaborating within the firm’s preliminary public providing.
“Most of the interviews we’ve seen you have been on platforms that my generation don’t watch,” Bae U stated.
He added that younger Nigerians have been considering investing in Dangote’s firm and needed to provide him a platform to succeed in a wider viewers.
“I’m not saying you should sack your media team. No, but you know, when you finish,” he stated earlier than asking when the billionaire would seem on his present.
Responding to the invitation, Dangote stated younger individuals represented the longer term and that older generations wanted to share their experiences with them.
“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 stated.
Dangote stated there was a necessity for conversations between older and youthful generations to share experiences and talk about the nation’s growth.
“So we need to sit down with some of you and discuss our own experience with you,” he added.
The businessman famous that many younger Nigerians had restricted data of a few of the nation’s previous political leaders and historic experiences.
He cited former President Olusegun Obasanjo for example, saying youthful Nigerians would possibly know extra about him as a result of he returned to energy.
Bae U interjected, saying, “Thanks to me. I gave him the platform, sir,” apparently referring to his personal interview with Obasanjo.
Dangote agreed that youthful audiences have been an essential group for him to interact.
So actually, you’re proper. Going ahead, this kind of viewers is the viewers that we, any person like me, ought to really face,” he stated.
He added that younger individuals had continued to indicate him help and respect, together with when he travelled overseas.
According to Dangote, individuals round him typically tried to forestall members of the general public from taking images with him, however he most popular to oblige them.
He recalled an expertise from his youth when he and his grandfather met distinguished figures in Washington and requested to have their images taken with them.
Dangote stated the expertise influenced his willingness to take photos with members of the general public, regardless of his present standing.
He additionally dismissed ideas {that a} {photograph} of him shared on social media meant he was begging for extra blessings.
“I wasn’t begging for anything. What I was saying, I was just saying that, God, you have over-blessed me,” he stated.
Dangote indicated that he was prepared to take a seat down with youthful individuals and share his experiences in an off-the-cuff setting the place they might ask questions on his journey.
“We will come,” he stated in response to the invitation to seem on Curiosity Made Me Ask.
He added that he needed the dialog to be open, permitting individuals to ask how he constructed his enterprise and achieved his success.
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