The industrialist dismissed comparisons with Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote, highlighting his rise from “ground zero,” global business footprint, and claim of mentoring dozens of Nigerian billionaires.
"Noise making with empty pocket is a new currency. That's what that means. He took me on and started saying I should never equate myself with Femi Otedola and the rest.
I will never equate myself with Aliko and the rest of them. If they came from where I was coming from, they would have been much more successful people.
Don't measure me with a person whose father gave opportunity to go to school and have BSc or MSc.
I am a street boy who came from ground zero and worked myself up to sit in two public quoted banks in Nigeria and a chairman of a credit committee. With my third grade education I was invited by United Nations industrial development in Vienna.
I also do business in 5 continents of the world. In 2011, God put it in my heart to go out there and create a thousand billionaires in Nigeria. I have 67 of them I can count on my fingers who I have mentored and they have become billionaires...."
– Nigerian businessman and industrialist, Cosmas Maduka, has fired back at nightlife entrepreneur Cubana Chief Priest following comments that compared him to top billionaires.
