13 Facts About Fela Durotoye

Adetokunbo Olufela Durotoye was born on in Ibadan, Oyo State on 12 May 1971 and is a business consultant, leadership expert, politician, and motivational speaker.

Fela Durotoye was the Nigerian presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria party for the 2019 presidential elections.

Fela Durotoye was born to Layiwola and Adeline Durotoye, both professors at the University of Ibadan.

Fela Durotoye is an alumnus of John F Kennedy School of Government Executive Education program of Harvard University.

Fela Durotoye attended the High Impact Leadership for a better society program at the Yale University, he is a certified leadership coach of the John Maxwell team.

In 2015, Fela Durotoye completed the executive seminar program on strategy, innovation and governance at the Lagos Business school.

Fela Durotoye was the head of the customer service department at Phillips Consulting Limited in 1998.

In 2018, Fela Durotoye gave a speech to over 200 entrepreneurs at the inaugural Nigerian American Business Forum in Tampa Florida, where he shared the podium with senior senator Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, senator Ben Murray-Bruce, Nigerian Stock Exchange chairman Abimbola Ogunbanjo, Media pioneer Biodun Shobanjo, former governor Peter Obi and technologist Ade Olufeko.

In December 2009, Fela Durotoye championed then urban renewal project "Mushin Makeover".

Fela Durotoye mobilized over 2,000 volunteers to paint 296 houses across 7 streets of the Mushin suburb of Lagos at no charge to the owners and resident of the buildings.

Fela Durotoye has been a successful social entrepreneur and would be his vice-president.

On Thursday 24 January 2019, Fela Durotoye took to his Twitter handle commending Oby Ezekwesili for leading the frontier of building a formidable coalition and presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidential elections.

Fela Durotoye revealed that he served without receiving a salary from the Bola Tinubu-led government from October 2023 till March 2024.