Tekedia Capital Salutes Dangote Refinery As NNPC Lifts Petrol From the Company

Let me congratulate Aliko Dangote for executing his mission of running a refinery in Nigeria. The news today is that the national oil corporation has lifted petrol from Dangote Refinery. Simply, it is now a hard fact that this refinery works and operates, because an input was fed in, and an output – the product – is out.

Here, we have another case study on the accumulation of capabilities construct: Tekedia’s Accumulation of Capability Construct is a concept that states that to thrive, one must accumulate capabilities, but greatness comes from mastering how to compound those capabilities.

Dangote has excelled in this upstream business domains where massive capabilities are required. I salute his business sagacity and uncommon unalloyed passion to take ACTION on fixing frictions in markets, and advancing the welfare of his fellow citizens. Nations always thrive when great entrepreneurs emerge, because the promises of politicians are business opportunities, since politicians do not and cannot run companies.

Alhaji: you have served your country; we salute! I understand that those without good memory will begin to write that he “cornered petrol”, “the government gave him the petrol sector”, etc. Forget about them: everything is easy in this world when someone has done it. If you are able to stabilize the petrol ecosystem, they will quickly forget how bad things were.

You have taken cement, petrol, etc…with our members, we are aspiring to become the most diversified modern investment digital conglomerate out of continental Africa. Tekedia Capital will deploy our capabilities to build the next Africa through entrepreneurial capitalism. You inspire us, and we will always meet in that village square where doers and makers converge for the good of a continent.

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