Nigerian content material creator Adebayo Ridwan, popularly referred to as Bae U Barbie, has invited billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote to look on his YouTube present, Curiosity Made Me Ask.
Bae U made the invitation whereas asking Dangote about his media appearances, the necessity to have interaction youthful Nigerians fascinated with 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 sometimes watch, regardless of their curiosity in investing in his enterprise and taking part 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 mentioned.
He added that younger Nigerians have been fascinated with investing in Dangote’s firm and needed to offer him a platform to achieve a wider viewers.
“I’m not saying you should sack your media team. No, but you know, when you finish,” he mentioned earlier than asking when the billionaire would seem on his present.
Responding to the invitation, Dangote mentioned younger folks represented the long run 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 mentioned.
Dangote mentioned there was a necessity for conversations between older and youthful generations to share experiences and focus on the nation’s improvement.
“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 may 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 necessary group for him to have interaction.
So actually, you’re proper. Going ahead, this kind of viewers is the viewers that we, anyone like me, ought to really face,” he mentioned.
He added that younger folks had continued to point out him assist and respect, together with when he travelled overseas.
According to Dangote, folks round him generally 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 outstanding figures in Washington and requested to have their images taken with them.
Dangote mentioned the expertise influenced his willingness to take footage with members of the general public, regardless of his present standing.
He additionally dismissed options {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 mentioned.
Dangote indicated that he was keen to sit down down with youthful folks and share his experiences in an off-the-cuff setting the place they may ask questions on his journey.
“We will come,” he mentioned in response to the invitation to look on Curiosity Made Me Ask.
He added that he needed the dialog to be open, permitting folks to ask how he constructed his enterprise and achieved his success.
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