Dangote May Buy Club Other Than Arsenal If Kroenke Won't Sell
- Nigerian billionaire wants to buy Arsenal once refinery built
- ‘I don’t have to own Arsenal,’ Dangote says in an interview
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Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, said he would consider buying a soccer club other than London-based Arsenal if controlling shareholder Stan Kroenke refuses to sell.
Dangote has long said he wants to buy the Premier League team, of which he’s a fan, but only after he’s completed one of the world’s biggest oil refineries in Lagos, Nigeria. Also on his to-do list: The investment of billions of dollars in sugar, rice and dairy production in the West African nation and the sale of shares of his cement company in London.