Fact-check: Is Oil Magnet, A.A. Rano Married to a Lebanese woman?
Claim: A video shows a Lebanese woman crying for help and accusing her husband of abandoning her; the post identifies the husband as “A.A. Rano (AA Rano Oil)” implying the well-known Kano businessman Auwalu Abdullahi Rano and/or his company A A Rano Nigeria Limited.
The caption says she’s the wife of “A.A Rano Oil CEO Aliyu Abubakar” and that A A Rano is the man involved.
Background: A. A. Rano, full name Auwalu Abdullahi Rano is a high-profile businessman from Kano who runs A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited and a group of companies operating in oil & gas, aviation, agro-processing and related sectors. He is popularly known as “A.A. Rano” and is associated with several Rano-branded subsidiaries.
Separately, Nigerian social media and local outlets are circulating a video of a Lebanese woman pleading for help, naming her husband misconstrued as AA Rano. The video has been shared widely on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Verification: In examining the evidence analysing the viral video, it emerged that the lebanese woman during the press conference consistently referred to the concerned individual as Aliyu Abubakar. A quick online check reveals that Aliyu Abubakar is the CEO of AA Oil limited often misconstrued in social-media posts as the well-known Kano businessman Alhaji Auwalu Abdullahi Rano of A.A. Rano.
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PRNigeria authoritatively confirms that Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (A.A. Rano) – the Kano businessman – is a different person with different corporate identity and origin. Public profiles and reputable Nigerian press identify Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (AA Rano) as the Kano-based entrepreneur and chairman of A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited (the Rano group). BusinessDay, Punch and the company’s own site describe his background and list the Rano group activities.
Corporate records show “A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited” as an entity and not “AA Rano Oil” as captioned in the video; the Rano website lists subsidiaries Rano Lube, Rano Air, Rano Refinery, Rano Rice Mill, Rano Agro Chemical, Rano Transportationa and Rano Upstream, but the registered parent company name is A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited. A publicly available document referencing A.A. RANO NIGERIA LIMITED supports that the corporate vehicle is A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited and that the Rano group uses Rano-prefixed subsidiaries which does not equate to a person named Aliyu Abubakar being A.A. Rano.
Aliyu Abubakar – widely called “AA Oil” – is a different business figure with a separate history including previous media mentions and legal-affairs coverage. Press archives reference an Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar associated with AA Oil and large Abuja properties; he has an independent public footprint distinct from Auwalu Abdullahi Rano.
No credible, authoritative source links Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (AA Rano of Kano) to the Lebanese woman in the viral video. Instead, the evidence shows the woman in the clip is accusing Aliyu Abubakar (AA Oil) – a different person – of abandonment. The viral posts conflate the names “AA Rano”, “AA Oil”, “Aliyu”, “Auwalu”.
Similarly family sources confirmed to PRNigeria that the chairman AA Rano has only two wives who both live permanently in Kano state and non Lives in Abuja.
“My Chairman AA Rano has never married any foreigner nor any other wife in his life apart from these two. Above all he has no house in Abuja yet, I know that he is now building one in Maitama,” the source confirmed to PRNigeria.
Conclusion: The Therefore, PRNigeria Factcheck confirms that the viral claim that the Lebanese woman is the wife of AA Rano of Kano is false. The video and accompanying coverage consistently name Aliyu Abubakar commonly referred to as “AA Oil” as the man being accused. He is a different individual from Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (AA Rano). Public corporate records and the AA Rano group’s own materials show A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited (the Kano group) is a distinct entity linked to Auwalu Abdullahi Rano; they are not the same person or company as “AA Oil/Aliyu Abubakar.”
Verdict: False/Misattributed
By PRNigeria
