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- REAL REASON ORIENTAL ENERGY RESOURCES’MD, IGNATIUS IFELAYO, THREW IN THE TOWEL FROM LAGOS TO CANADA: MORE ON SEGUN OLOKETUJI

It’s no longer a hot-button issue that the MD of Oriental Energy Resources, Ignatius Ifelayo, has resigned from the company owned by Alhaji Muhammudu Indimi. But there have been whispers as to how powerful the Vice President, Ameena Indimi is, but only Oriental insiders could really tell. Sources say Ameena, the no-nonsense daughter of Alhaji Indimi is heroworshi­pped. Hence, when she sneezes, not a few top staff catch a cold. And she is said not to waste time in putting people where they belong.

On a day when she wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, she is wont to ask everybody to leave and come some other time regardless of who or how long they have been waiting to see her. Little wonder, the Oriental’s managing director, Ignatius Ifelayo has thrown in the towel. According to informatio­n doing the rounds, “the businessma­n, who spent the bulk of his career at Texaco and Addax Petroleum, disagreed with the way things are run by the vice president and actual boss of the company, Ameena and has packed his bags”.

The company, active on OML 67 (26,000 bpd), has plans to expand its portfolio with the marginal fields tender expected to be held by Nigerian next year. The group was founded by Ameena’s father, the billionair­e Muhammadu Indimi, who is still at the helm of the firm and remains

Achairman.

However, Ameena, one of the Indimi’s richest daughters, is not ready to remarry since she lost her husband in a bike accident some years ago. She has shut her heart to any external intrusion. Her youthful beauty is still a pull for men and a muse for their poetic inclinatio­ns. But getting her to sit to listen to sugar-coated, knee-weakening rhapsodies from eager men has been as hard as convincing her to go out on a date. For her, the only things deserving of her attention are her business and her family. She has been pelted and pilloried by those who can’t fathom how a young lady, has evolved to be a recurring decimal in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. It is however a statement of her industry and innovative­ness, never-say-die spirit and courage of conviction that she remains a towering figure in a cutthroat, dog-eatdog industry.

It is often said that too much money destroys character, corrupts virtue, dishevels morals and feeds the vanities of its random possessors. Thus too many possessors of the legal tender have been found to lose their humanity and souls to its enthrallin­g caprices and vile. But the brilliant banker, Segun Oloketuyi, is remarkably different. He is immune to the wiles and ravages of money. Unlike too many of his peers that have fallen to money’s devious charms, he is invulnerab­le to the terrifying charms of the legal tender.

The corporate titan and former group managing director and chief executive officer of WEMA Bank, Oloketuyi, who retired some months ago is hot under the collar with our last report about him moving his family to Canada. Yes, Segun has never been a limelight-hugging technocrat, those who know him, his cerebral mind and deep love for humanity and the affairs of his dear nation would no doubt attest to that. According to the brilliant banker who called to set the record straight, he didn’t just move his family to Canada. They have been there for many years. They live and school in Canada. And also saying he is likely one of the richest retired bank MDs, according to him, skirts moral boundaries.

He is a man of modest means. Segun who lives a life of modesty does not subscribe to the usual vanities that eventually consume some men in Nigeria. Not surprising­ly because Segun is regarded as one of the most brilliant minds to run a financial institutio­n in Nigeria. When he was appointed MD/CEO, it was also a most inauspicio­us time as the global financial crisis was at its most feverish. But diligently, he went about his work and soon, the CEO’s shoe fitted snugly so much that by the time he retired months ago, the WEMA was very well positioned among Nigeria’s foremost banks. He brought his ingenious leadership style to bear, thus changing the fortunes of the bank for better via visionary initiative­s.

According to WEMA officials, “In the past nine years, under the leadership of Segun Oloketuyi, the bank recorded great achievemen­ts; growth in Deposit Liabilitie­s by 39 per cent to N354.88billion (FY 2017; N254.5billion) on the back of continued acceptance of the Wema brand and the improved performanc­e of ALAT-our flagship Digital Bank”. Also, increase in earnings and capacity - gross earnings increased by 5.12 % from N30.37billion (H12017) to N31.93billion (H12018) while profit before tax closed 27.44 per cent higher N1.83billion”. We believe them! We sincerely apologize to the former bank chief for the misinforma­tion and the embarrassm­ent the story must have caused him and his bank.

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