Percy Onyeka
The appointment of Ms. Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc was made in accordance with the company’s succession planning procedure, according to the company.
The Chairman of the company, Abubakar Jimoh, commented on the appointment in a filing to the Nigerian Exchange Group, NGX, stating that Ms. Agbede is the most senior executive in the organization with a wealth of professional, leadership, and Access culture experience.
He added that the acting GCEO will provide the leadership necessary to guide the business toward the realization of its strategic vision of creating a globally connected community and ecosystem.
“The appointment of Ms. Agbede is in alignment with our robust succession planning practices. We are strongly convinced that Ms. Agbede, being the company’s most Senior Executive with exceptionally rich, professional and leadership experience and understanding of the Access culture, would provide the much-needed leadership to steer the company towards the attainment of its strategic vision of building a globally connected community and ecosystem, inspired by Africa for the world,” he said.
According to reports, Agbede was appointed after Dr. Herbert Wigwe, the former Group Chief Executive Officer, and his wife Doreen, son Chizi, and former Nigeria Exchange Group chairman Abimboloa Ogunbanjo died in a helicopter crash on Friday in California, USA.
The nomination was contingent upon Central Bank of Nigeria approval, according to a February 12, 2024, announcement from the company’s Board of Directors.
“Further to its announcement dated February 11, 2024, the Board of Directors of Access Holdings Plc (‘the Company’) has today announced the appointment of Ms Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer of the Company following the unfortunate demise of its former Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr Herbert Wigwe, on February 9, 2024.
“The appointment is subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria,” the statement signed by the Group Company Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi, read in part.
Until her recent appointment, Ms Agbede was the company’s most senior founding Executive Director in charge of business support.
She has nearly three decades of professional experience cutting across banking and business consultancy services.
She started working at Guaranty Trust Bank in 1992 and held a number of positions in the operations and commercial banking departments until being promoted to manager in 2001.
As an associate general manager, Agbede joined Access Bank in 2003 and was in charge of overseeing the bank’s collection of chemical trading businesses.
In 2010, she took over as the Access Bank Group’s head of human resources, managing the organization’s development of human capital. After the bank converted to a holding company, she was appointed executive director of Access Holdings in June 2022, and she remained in that role until then.
In 2003, Ms. Agbede was the Chief Executive Officer of JKG Limited, a company that provided business consultancy services.
Techrectory with Agency Report
