Empty Treasury: Buhari
to sack CBN governor
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
governor, Godwin Emefiele, may be the next top profile government official to
lose his job
Top presidential aides confided on
Monday that the dragnet is drawing closer to Emefiele, who was appointed as
head of the nation’s apex bank by former President Goodluck Jonathan on June 3,
2014.
Emefiele replaced Mallam Lamido
Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, who was controversially suspended and fired by
Jonathan for alleged insubordination.
But the CBN chief has been in the eye
of the storm lately following revelations that the nation’s treasury was
practically emptied to fund the failed re-election bid of Jonathan in 2015.
Emefiele, investigators alleged,
granted government officials unfettered access to the treasury during the
electioneering period and even printed new currencies when the vault was
drained.
Many people expected President
Muhammadu Buhari to have fired the bank’s chief following his alleged
involvement in the infamous Dansukigate scandal, but a top presidential aide
said Buhari decided otherwise, to strike at the best time.
Reporting GWD…………………….
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