Friday 18 May 2018

Otedola: Billionaire businessman pours cold water on governorship rumours.

Femi Otedola has denied stories that he intends to run for the office of Governor of Lagos.

Billionaire businessman Femi Otedola has denied nursing plans to run for the office of Governor of Lagos State.

The rumours assumed lives of their own after Otedola opened a Twitter account and hopped on a Molue bus in suburban Lagos—all in the space of three months.

Video footage of Otedola in a Molue immediately went viral, fueling speculations that it was a carefully orchestrated populist stunt from the billionaire ahead of the 2019 electioneering season.

Fake Twitter accounts have also been opened in Otedola's name. It was from one of those cloned and parody accounts that it was announced he will be running for political office.

But Otedola has come out to pour cold water on the rumour mill.

“My attention has been drawn to a news piece where false information from a parody account was posted. I am a man of the people and I will always be on the side of the masses but I am stating clearly via this medium that I am not running for office”, he tweeted.


By Jude Egbas.
Full story at Pulse NG.

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