No fewer than 1,927 persons have appended their signatures to a petition demanding for the sack of the managing director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr. Adam Nuru, over alleged infidelity with a former employee of the bank, Mrs. Moyo Thomas.
The petition is also asking the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the FCMB board to dismiss Nuru on ethical grounds.
The petition followed the death of Moyo’s estranged husband, Mr. Tunde Thomas, who reportedly died of depression on December 16, 2020 after Moyo reportedly told him some months earlier that her two children were not his.
According to the petition, the bank chief allegedly had an affair with his employee, Moyo, resulting in two children.
It alleged that Moyo had informed her husband that she was leaving Nigeria for the United States with the children only to call him upon arrival that the children do not belong to him.
The petition claimed the news initially caused the husband to be down with a stroke but later recovered and thereafter met another lady whom he planned to marry.
He was however, said to have suffered a cardiac arrest after returning from work about two days before his introduction to his already pregnant girlfriend.
Here are excerpts of the petition posted on change.org:
“Tunde Thomas died recently like about a week or 2 from depression.
“Apparently, kids from his marriage to Moyo Thomas belong to his wife’s boss (Adam Nuru, the current MD of FCMB).
“Moyo Thomas left Tunde to go to America with the kids. She told him kids were not his when she got to America. He was later down with a stroke but recovered.
“Apparently, Tunde met someone else he was going to remarry but apparently didn’t recover from the first Marriage issues.
“Tunde was just made director for the MFB he works for. Got back from work last week and had a cardiac arrest 2 days before introduction to a pregnant new girlfriend.
“This is a case of gross misconduct based on ethical grounds and unjustifiable economic oppression by the elites (Adam Nuru) against the less privileged in the society.
“The MD has been doing everything possible to sweep this case under the carpet. We implore the Central Bank of Nigeria as the apex regulator and the board of FCMB to investigate this for the integrity of the bank and Nigerian banking industry.
“This is a case too many, while I agree that this is not the full story, the barest minimum will be an investigation of this unethical conduct by the current MD of FCMB Bank Adam Nuru.”
Reacting to the allegations, the bank said its board of directors had commenced investigation into the matter to ascertain whether its code of ethics was violated.
“We are aware of several stories circulating across several media platforms about our bank’s Managing Director Adam Nuru, a former employee Ms Moyo Thomas and her deceased husband, Mr. Tunde Thomas.
“While this is a personal matter, the tragedy of the death of Mr. Tunde Thomas and the allegations of unethical conduct, require the bank’s board to conduct a review of what transpired, any violations of our code of ethics, and the adequacy of these code of conduct ethics. This will be done immediately.
“We enjoin all our stakeholders to bear with us as we conduct this review and to please respect the various families involved,” spokesman for the bank, Mr. Diran Olojo told Premium Times in an interview
