Worth A Read14 Jan 2019 18:44
Angus Energy – sheer AIM Casino comedy with Lord Lucan unless you are a shareholder in which case a tragedy
By Tom Winnifrith
Where to start? This is laughable unless you are one of those suckered in to buying shares in Angus Energy (ANGS) by the diarrhoea of pre-placing ramp tweets from shameless Big Dave Lenigas. Then it is a bit of a tragedy. Today’s newsflow is hilarious.
Let us start with a GM request to oust boss Paul Vonk and any other director appointed between now and the GM. Vonk is to be replaced by Adam Salim Habib, a banker who, according to Companies House, has been a director of four companies all of which have been dissolved or are in liquidation. Unlucky. The GM is also asked to appoint the 8th Earl of Lucan. His dad was known as Lucky until he murdered the nanny. Mistaking her for his Mrs and did a runner.
Who would be mad enough to want to replace the credible Vonk with Unlucky Habib and son of Lucky Lucan? Step forward former boss Jonathan Tidswell-Pretorius who left as a director last summer - but remained as a very well paid employee - under something of a cloud when he got a bit confused with his share dealing/taking out loans against stock. This confusion saw most of his shares being sold by America2030.
Tidswell said he'd sue America2030 and get reinstated. Oddly that did not happen.
And thus it is a safe bet that were Vonk to be ousted and replaced by Unlucky and son of Lucky as the placemen of Tidswell-Pretorius the Nomad would quit, given T-P’s “issues” and it would then be game over for Angus. Not surprisingly the board urges shareholders to vote against the proposals and indeed stock holders would be utterly, nanny -murdering scale, bonkers, to do otherwise.
The City’s No 1 oil analyst, Zac Phillips of disgraced SP Angel does not hold back on this nonsense:
Angus Energy: Curiouser & Curiouser: News that a General Meeting has been requisition by what seems like the Company’s past Chairman Jonathan Tidswell-Pretorious (“JTP”), seeking to replace the existing board is a curious step.
Given that JTP was removed for what can only be considered a serious lapse in judgement, one is left with the question as to:
1. What he hopes to achieve that isn’t being done presently;
2. What does he think he can do better; and
3. How can anybody have faith in his judgement given his recent history.
We don’t have answers to any of these questions, but they must be incumbent on JTP to address if he wants to take the remaining ~90% of shareholders with him.
One would suggest that if he fails, his tenure as an employee will be short lived, so this raises the question as to what is so important that he feels that he has to risk everything to do it? It is a very curious position, and one that will need to be resolved to the satisfaction of the majority of shareholders, one way or another.
Ends.
The Unlucky & son of Lucky comedy is something that the, fairly credible, NED Rob Shephard does