Access Holdings Plc has announced the resignation of Mr. Roosevelt Ogbonna from its Board of Directors, following over three years of service as a Non-Executive Director.
The company disclosed this in a statement filed with the Nigerian Exchange and signed by Mr. Sunday Ekwochi, Company Secretary.
According to the statement, Ogbonna’s resignation is in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Corporate Governance Guidelines for Financial Holding Companies (2023), which stipulate a maximum of nine directors on the board of any financial holding company.
“Mr. Ogbonna will continue to serve as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, the banking subsidiary of Access Holdings,” the statement read.
The board expressed appreciation for Ogbonna’s contributions, describing his service as “outstanding and continued.”
Ogbonna was appointed MD/CEO of Access Bank in May 2022, having previously served as Deputy Managing Director from 2017 and Executive Director from 2013. He joined Access Bank in 2002 from Guaranty Trust Bank.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (HCIB), and a CFA charter holder.
Ogbonna holds an MBA from IMD Business School, Switzerland; an LL.M in International Corporate & Commercial Law from King’s College London; an Executive MBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; and a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also completed executive programmes at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.
He currently serves on the boards of Access Bank’s subsidiaries in the UK and South Africa, and represents the bank on the boards of Africa Finance Corporation and CSCS Plc.
As of August 2025, the Board of Access Holdings Plc comprises Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Chairman), Bolaji Olaitan Agbede (Acting Group CEO), Lanre Bamisebi (Executive Director), and six other directors.
