SaharaReporters has learned from sources close to President Goodluck Jonathan that Aigboje I. Aig-Imoukhuede, the controversial head of Access Bank Plc, has been tipped to succeed current Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at the helm of Nigeria’s Central Bank.


“If all goes as planned, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede will become the next Governor of the Central Bank,” one of our sources said.

Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede, the Group Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, also enjoys the support of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said one source.

The banker, whose closeness to both Mr. Jonathan and Ms.Okonjo-Iweala is well known, is regarded within Nigeria’s financial circles as a controversial figure who has remained unscathed because of his high-powered political contacts. Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede’s ties to Mr. Jonathan and Nigeria’s Finance Minister have helped him obscure his bank’s widespread and obscene involvement in the $6 billion oil subsidy scam that rocked Nigeria last year.

A top level Nigerian financial analyst with deep knowledge of the oil sector told SaharaReporters that Mr. Aig-Imoukhuedeand his bank “should have been on the hot seat over their role in the fuel subsidy fraud.” Instead, the analysts said, President Jonathan appointed the banker to a committee that enabled Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede and Access Bank to escape critical searchlight.

A source told SaharaReporters that current CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has expressed a desire not to seek a second term at the end of his current five-year tenure. Mr. Sanusi’s term as Nigeria’s current governor of the CBN is due toexpire in April, 2014.

Last year, President Jonathan appointed Mr. Aig Imoukhuede to chair a committee on fuel subsidies. The appointment helped the banker to cover up his bank's involvement in the oil subsidy scam

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Aig really worth it.

Though the man may be credible, there is still a need to consider the integrity when trying to appoint a man to govern such sensitive post.

Well lets see... It is better than another First Bank boy. If true then power is indeed changing hands gradually.

The intercontinental bank fraud is still fresh in our mind ooo.

Mallam Isa Yuguda will be more suitable for the position ...

AS the race on who succeeds the incumbent Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi in June next year gets tougher, there are strong indications that the Presidency and key cabinet members of the administration may have settled for the Group Managing Director of Access Bank, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede.

Since Sanusi confirmed in March this year that he will not seek second term, various individuals have been jostling for the plum job.
Apart from Imoukhuede, Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda; Chairman of Stanbic IBTC Bank, Atedo Peterside and a renowned economist and Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr Bismarck Rewane, among others, were speculated as frontline contestants.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that apart from the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala and Sanusi, President Goodluck Jonathan has given his full support to the Access Bank boss to clinch the job.

A source close to Imoukhuede confirmed to Nigerian Tribune that the coordinating Minister of the Economy and Mallam Sanusi actually sold the candidature of the Access Bank boss to President Jonathan.

With this development, President Jonathan may have dumped his kinsman, Peterside. The Stanbic IBTC Chairman was also said to rely heavily on Sanusi, a fellow Kings College old boy.

Industry watchers are not surprised at the present scenario as Imoukhuede has been the unofficial personal assistant to the incumbent CBN Governor. Apart from defending Sanusi’s policy at any given forum, he is said to have been understudying him in the last two years.
Imoukhuede who is a member of the Nigeria Economic Management Team (NEMT) is also believed to be a member of the ‘kitchen cabinet’ of President Jonathan which has seen him handling many committees including that of the fuel subsidy.

A financial analyst who pleaded anonymity told Nigerian Tribune that the industry is already expecting Imoukhuede to succeed Sanusi as the next CBN Governor.

According to him, over time, Sanusi has seen Imoukhuede as somebody he can trust and rely on, stressing that the duo are always together at every event.

“We will not be surprised. Imoukhuede is a brilliant young man. He knows what he wants and will always go for it. Apart from Sanusi, he is close to his colleagues and even the Presidency. I wish him good luck,” he said.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/10259-imoukhuede-may-succeed-sanusi-as-next-cbn-governor

Maxymilliano: Mallam Isa Yuguda will be more suitable for the position ...

You are correct.

Maxymilliano: Mallam Isa Yuguda will be more suitable for the position ...

No lets appoint Abubakar Shekau or even Abu Qaqa. Oloshi!

wesley80:
No lets appoint Abubakar Shekau or even Abu Qaqa. Oloshi!

lol

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No lets appoint Abubakar Shekau or even Abu Qaqa.


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Maxymilliano: Mallam Isa Yuguda will be more suitable for the position ...

Can u elaborate on why you want Isa Yaguda to take up that position ?