The National Coordinator of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), on Monday, revealed some of the leading personalities in the alleged plot to undermine the cash withdrawal policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the arrest and removal of Governor Godwin Emefiele.
Mr Tochukwu Ohazurike, who led a coalition of civil society organisations, CSOs to a press conference where the plot to allegedly frame Emefiele with terrorism charges and arrest him was revealed, disclosed that some of the nation’s leading personalities were involved.
The specific individual mentioned was the Director General of the DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi.
Bichi is yet to respond to the allegation.
According to Ohazurike, the plot had political undertone as he mentioned that a presidential candidate, who could lose out through the cash withdrawal policy of CBN during the elections, was also part of the plot.
Ohazurike said: “The entire purpose of this dastardly plot is for political and financial benefits. The people in the plot are mighty, they are very, very strong people and they are indeed high and mighty in our government and in our country.
“Apart from the already mentioned director-general of the State Security Service, our intelligence alleges that the head of one of the chambers of the National Assembly is also part of the plot. A presidential candidate of a major political party is on the plot as well.
“Also some ministers in the cabinet, a top shot of the Financial Reporting Council, a member of the leadership of one of the anti-corruption agencies, some serving and former members of parliament, including the one that is currently bandying figures that he doesn’t know against the bank, one top official in the Villa, some few desperate officials in the CBN who have been promised they would be made heads of departments including one of the two newly renominated deputy governors who has been promised the top job as the new CBN governor.
“We shall call for investigation to know how far these officials are determined to go in their plot,” Ohazurike said in his revelation of those behind the plot to arrest Emefiele.
