Femi Otedola, a Nigerian billionaire entrepreneur, has explained that he did not attend university because he lacked the academic flare and interest.
Femi Otedola, the business mogul and chairman of First Bank Holding, revealed this in his 286-page memoir released on Monday.
He claimed that following the Lower Sixth exam, he left school and did not come back for the Upper Sixth.
Femi Otedola further state that all he desired at the time was to work in his father’s printing press.
“My parents enrolled me at the University of Lagos Staff School in 1968, at the age of six.
“But there was something about academia and me; we were not compatible. I finished primary school in 1974 because I repeated a class. Even when I was allowed to pass, I consistently anchored the bottom rungs of our end-of-term examination results. My interests were definitely not in academia.
“I started Form 1 at age 12 and was there for three years.”
“I started in Form 3 at Olivet, and as I rounded off the first year of my A Levels, my father was establishing his printing company, Impact Press, in Surulere, a residential and commercial district in Lagos State. I grew fascinated with the machines and told myself that my future would be inextricably tied to them. I managed to remain in school until the Lower Sixth examination was over. And then, I was finished; I never returned for my Upper Sixth. “All I wanted to do was get involved in business. “My father kept watch over me and drew me close,” he said in the book.
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