*Begins underground work, bank job suffers
Mr. Alex Otti, the Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc is allegedly plotting to become the next governor of Abia State. Feelers reaching us have it that he now pays more attention to the governorship project; even sometimes at the detriment of his bank job.
A source who claims to be in the know informed us that Otti enjoys the blessings of the incumbent governor, Chief Theodore Ahamefula Orji, which explains why he is pursuing his ambition with vigour and so much vitality. Besides working underground at the moment to actualize his dream, creating a robust image of him in the eyes of the people has equally begun. Two of these moves that readily come to mind are his recent conferment with an honorary doctorate by the University of Nigeria Nsukka and also his decoration as the Banker Of The Year by Prince Emeka Obasi’s Business Hallmark Newspapers. Other media stunts are also daily being pulled for him, the reason he’s now in the media more than before.
Hitherto an Executive Director with First Bank of Nigeria Plc, the first class graduate of the University of Port-Harcourt (Economics) was made the MD/CEO of Diamond Bank in March 2011, following the exit of the former MD, Mr. Emeka Onwuka. He began his banking career with the defunct Nigerian International Bank Ltd. From there he moved over to Nigerian Intercontinental Merchant Bank, the United Bank for Africa, First Bank and now Diamond Bank. One of the staffers in their Corporate Affairs Department whom we spoke to on Thursday, January 31, 2013, Tobechukwu Okoli told us that he was not authorized to speak on the matter when contacted.