Suspended Heritage Bank "License Holder", Mary Akpobome Moves To Rope In MD Sekibo In Mega Loans Mess As Fight For Control Threatens To Go Overboard

Details coming to fore have it that, suspended Heritage Bank Director – Mary Akpobome has initiated a serious fight back.

And her moves are plotted to ensnare bank managing director Ifie Sekibo.

Mary suspended for allegations of issues bothering on questionable loans and inability to recoup mega loans giving the operations of the bank great turbulence is now claiming she didn’t act alone in the circumstances that forced her exit from the bank.

In her ongoing fight back moves, the once upon a time powerful bank executive claimed that all the transactions that got the board to suspend her were duly brought to the notice of the managing director Sekibo and approved by him.

She is fighting her suspension on the strength of claims she cannot be solely suspended for "deals" that had the fingerprints of the managing director as well.

She is now further alleging that leaving Sekibo "unsanctioned" shows she was targetted for a takeout in the power struggle strangulating the operation of the bank.

Checks by highstreet revealed that Akpobome actually spearheaded the acquisition of Heritage Bank’s license.

Inability to raise funds forced her to involve interests that brought in Sekibo as managing Director to represent their stake.

Akpobome however secured the position of Executive Director, Service Bank with a wide range of responsibilities that gave her all access to the operations of the bank.

She was positioned to provide much-needed banking experience support to Sekibo whose core background is in Insurance.

But right from the kick off of the operations of the entity properly registered as "Heritage Banking Company Limited" it has been as seasons of a fight for control in one guise or the other.

At a point, Akpobome and her backers had secured the upper hand until the tide turned and she was "ousted" in the midst of allegations of crippling and unsecured loans.

The Director Service bank was suspended from office - based on the approval of the board of Directors -and she reportedly avoided making a  public fuss over the sanction to protect customers confidence.

But months after and with continuous blockade of her attempts to stage a comeback, sources claim Akpobome has adopted another line of thinking.

She is making a serious fight back and Chief Executive Officer Sekibo appears to be the "sacrificial goat" of the plot.

Media Consultant to the bank Kayode Akinyemi, however, disclose claims credited to Akpobome cannot stand because she was suspended by the board of directors after a careful look at her case and Managing Director Sekibo not involved at all.

Akinyemi’s admission of suspension contradicts initial communication on Akpobome’s status with the bank when news of her suspension broke.

He issued a statement that outrightly denied the suspension of Akpobome by Heritage Bank.