Non-Executive Director at Access Holdings Plc, Mr Roosevelt Ogbonna, has stepped down from the board after three and a half years of service. The announcement was made in a disclosure filed on the Nigerian Exchange and signed by the Company Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi.

Access Holdings, in the statement, said Ogbonna’s retirement from its board does not stop him from serving as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, the Group’s banking subsidiary.

According to the statement, Ogbonna’s resignation is aimed at ensuring compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Corporate Governance Guidelines for Financial Holding Companies (2023).

The guideline stipulate that not more than nine directors can sit on the board of a financial holding company. The board expressed gratitude for his continued and outstanding contributions to the Access Group.”

Ogbonna was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc in May 2022, after serving as Deputy Managing Director from 2017 and Executive Director from 2013.

He joined Access Bank in 2002 from Guaranty Trust Bank and has built up more than two decades of experience in the banking industry. Beyond his role as CEO, Ogbonna serves on the boards of Access Bank’s subsidiaries in the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa. He also represents the Bank on the boards of Africa Finance Corporation and CSCS Plc.

The Board of Access Holdings Plc, as of August 2025, consists of Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Chairman), Bolaji Olaitan Agbede (Acting Group CEO), and Lanre Bamisebi (Executive Director).

The independent non-executive directors are Abubakar Aribidesi Jimoh, Fatimah Bintah Bello-Ismail, and Ibironke Adeyemi. Other members include non-executive directors Ojinika Nkechinyelu Olaghere, Olusegun Babalola Ogbonnewo, and Roosevelt Ogbonna, who has resigned from the board but continues as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc.