•Block Maker, 33, Wins Car
The management of Dangote Cement Plc, over the weekend, announced a four-week extension of its ongoing sales promotion, saying 20 cars more and other fabulous prizes can still to be won.
Eng. Joseph Makoju, the group managing director who disclosed this during a car presentation ïn Lokoja, Kogi State, said the ongoing National Consumer Promotion tagged “Dangote Bag of Goodies,” will now end on October 15.
Consequently, a statement by the group quoted him as assuring that “based on the above dates, packaging of cement in the special promo bags with scratch card insertion will continue till 15th October while lucky consumers will be able to continue redeeming their prizes up until 31st October 2019.”
Customers, however, have until October 31, 2019, to redeem their respective prizes, the statement added.
Meanwhile, Abubakar Musa, 33, a block molder, who became the latest winner of a brand new car, said he was still in shock, despite being presented keys.
Narrating how his fortune, Musa said “…when I removed the winning card from the bag of cement, I ran to my wife who told me that the promo has since ended. But when I brought it to the Dangote office here they confirmed that it was ongoing and that I had won a car.
“I still cannot come to terms that I have won a car. I believe it is God doing. Dangote is God’s sent to my family,” he said.
Making the presentations, Makoju said the company was making a point by rewarding its loyal customers, describing the promo as a success and urging Nigerians to key into it.
The winning cards, he continued, were in over 72m promotional bags of Dangote Cement, stressing that the company was not only leading in the cement sector in terms of market share but in quality, being the only cement company in Nigeria that uses automatic robotic engineering to deliver quality to end-users.
Also speaking, National Sales Director, Dangote Cement, Adeyemi Fajobi said over 21m winners of various items are expected to emerge at the end of the promotion, assuring that there is still millions of Naira to be won in various prizes.
The group’s Marketing Director, Mrs. Funmi Sanni, on her part, said the decision to reward end users was borne out of Dangote Cement’s belief that customers are at the heart of its operations, following which their well-being remains that of the company, hence the need to empower them through the promotion.
Sanni explained that lucky customers across the country would go home with 43 cars, 24 tricycles, 24 motorcycles, 550 refrigerators, 400 television sets, 300,000 Dangote foods goody packs and recharge cards across all networks worth N200m.