The Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has disclosed how former President Muhammadu Buhari and his chief of staff, the late Abba Kyari, blocked his initial move to acquire an oil field in 2017.
Elumelu, who is also the Chairman of the United Bank for Africa Plc, said this in an interview in The Financial Times. According to him, Heirs Holdings was looking to purchase an oilfield since 2017, and had raised $2.5 billion to purchase one.