Huhuonline.com can disclose that Chief Femi Otedola, Chairman of Forte Oil is not contesting for Governorship seat of Lagos State, at least not in 2019.
Chief Otedola, who is currently on vacation in Europe told our correspondent that he has no intention of running for the gubernatorial seat in 2019.
However, The Boss Newspaper, owned by Dele Momodu had errornouesly reported that “Mr. Femi Otedola, Chairman/CEO of Forte Oil, has accepted to run for the governorship seat of the Lagos State under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
Without fact checking its story,The Boss stated that it can confirm that the party offered the billionaire oil magnate the ticket of the party, and he wholeheartedly accepted.”
“Otedola will therefore, in the long run square up against whoever the All Progressives Congress (APC) throws up as its party candidate as it is still embroiled in battle of supremacy between the loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.”
