Otudeko purchases 4.7 billion shares of First Bank

Otudeko, former chairman of the oldest financial institution in the country, was identified as the hand behind the mega transaction that happened on Thursday.

The shares which Otudeko bought for N87.8 billion at N19 per unit is the largest volume of First bank shares traded in a single day since 2012, when the stock exchange started publishing data. It also translates to 13 percent of the bank’s outstanding market value.