There is no gainsaying that success breeds expansion. The feet of billionaires soon become too big for the shoes they wear and new boots have to be procured to match their new status. This informs the decision of ABC Orjiakor, the chairman, Seplat Petroleum Development Company, to move the company’s head office to a grander location.
In a few months’ time Seplat will relocate from its modest headquarters at 25A Lugard Avenue, Ikoyi to a multimillion Naira edifice on Idowu Taylor Road, also in Ikoyi. Finishing touches are being put to the new head offices. When completed, it will rise beautifully on the Ikoyi skyline, a towering symbol of Seplat’s status as a giant in the oil and gas industry.
Dr Ambrose Bryant Chueloka (ABC) Orjiakor is the Nigerian Dream writ large in flesh and blood. An orthopaedic and trauma surgeon by training, he is evidence of man’s versatility to traverse and succeed in multiple areas. Always at the forefront whenever history is being made, one of his companies, Salvic Petroleum, became the first business to move its operations full time to Eko Atlantic. Salvic occupies the 15-storey Alfren Towers, the first permanent building to be completed in Africa’s city of the future.
Since co-founding Seplat in 2009, ABC Orjiakor has experienced the kind of dizzy rise that only occurs in fantasies. His connections with prominent politicians was the mortar which he mixed with the cement of sound business acumen to carve bricks of success in the business world. The husband of beautiful Henrietta was born on October 1 1960, the same day Nigeria gained independence from Great Britain.
Over the years, he has held forth at Abbeycourt Energy, Zebbrah Energy, and Shebah Exploration and Production, among others. He is a philanthropist and lover of humanity who is hush hush about the millions he spends on the less privileged.