About a third of the way into the book, Otedola delivers a staggering claim with characteristic breeziness: “I soon controlled 93% market share [of diesel].” This apex of dominance was likely reached five years after Zenon’s founding and the very year he states he became a billionaire. The reality, however, as pieced together from contemporaneous reports and policy analysis, reveals a far more complex machinery at work How does one truly ‘make it big’ in Nigeria? Here, ‘big’ is not merely comfortable or affluent; it is…
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