Just In: Femi Otedola Sells His Forte Oil Business, Completely Exits Fuel Business

-The C.E.O of Forte Oil Plc, Femi Otedola, has announced that they have sold all the shares in the firm’s downstream sector, to focus and consolidate on the profits of their power generation business, Geregu Power Plc.

This news is coming after the firm sold 17 per cent of its equity to a Swiss oil trading firm 3-years ago.

Femi Otedola revealed this shocking news on his Instagram page yesterday, June 19th. Femi Otedola wrote on his page:

A few years ago, my team and I embarked on an arduous task of transforming a moribund petroleum marketing business, African Petroleum Plc (formerly British Petroleum) into Forte Oil Plc; a leading integrated solutions provider with solid footprints in downstream petroleum marketing, Upstream Services and Power Generation and one in which we built intrinsic value to the benefits of our shareholders.

In line with my principle of business focus, we have divested from our marketing and upstream businesses and shall from now on focus and consolidate on the gains of our power generation business, Geregu Power Plc. We wish our successors the very best and urge them to build on our legacies which have been established since 1964 …F.Ote