ASRADI’s attention has been drawn to a ludicrously asinine press conference reportedly addressed by the governor of a state in Nigeria who looks, dresses, talks and behaves like a palm wine tapper, regarding calls for the removal of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
While we refuse to be dragged into a mudslinging war with the garrulous character who assumed the role of spokesman for both President Muhammadu Buhari and the CBN governor, we certainly do not intend to allow him to obfuscate issues with his muddle-headed musings.
In order for the public to decide who – between those calling for Mr. Emefiele’s removal and the classless state governor – is politicizing what ASRADI believes is a straight forward case of abuse of office and betrayal of public trust, we would like to pose the following questions:
Is it “faceless and shadowy” groups (according to the loose cannon and his fake coalition of “CSOs”) that forced Emefiele to unlawfully release raw cash offorty seven million dollars ($47m) in 17 suitcases to Sambo Dasuki as part of what is now famously known as Dasukigate?
Is a CBN governor, who is suspected to be deeply involved in what, clearly is money laundering, standing on any moral high ground to remain in that office?
Is it our loquacious pigmy’s “palm wine drinkers” that scandalously employed the sons/daughters/nephews/nieces/wards of people like President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku,former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, Internal Affairs Minister Abdulrahman Dambazzau, IGP Solomon Arase, Customs CG Hameed Alli, NNPC GMD Ibe Kachikwu, governor of Adamawa State, the deputy governors of Delta and Bayelsa States; to mention but a few?
At the last count, Emefiele has secretly employed 909 privileged Nigerians without advertising a single vacancy! Which CSO worthy of that appellation would support such a patently anomalous and egregiously corrupt exercise? Little wonder, no individual’s name was associated with a release that was attributed to a phoney “coalition of CSOs”! It is, in all probability, safe to conclude that Emefiele and the state governor in question – between them – created the “coalition” out of desperation.
ASRADI is at a loss as to what the connection is between the aforementioned cases of indiscretion (used advisedly) on the part of the CBN governor, and the introduction of Biometric Verification numbers, the addition of 41 items to the import prohibition list or the re-organisation of the operations of BDCs as preposterously suggested by the governor-clown and his suspicious coalition of CSOs.
It is a shame and an embarrassment for someone, who became governor of a state based on a reputation of being a comrade, to curiously make it his business to be defending the indefensible so senselessly. Or, is it that he benefitted from Emefiele’s surreptitious who-you-know (not what-you-know) recruitments into CBN, too?
With “leaders” like this interloping fellow who seems to suffer permanently from verbal diarrhea, Nigeria is in deeper trouble than previously thought.
As for Godwin Emefiele, the advice we have for him is to jump rather than be pushed because if he has any decency, he would by now have tendered his resignation and turned himself in at the offices of the anti-graft agencies. One gratifying fact, though, is that there is no statute of limitations on criminal offences.
For the information of the social climber who convened the Press Conference, CBN governors’ much-vaunted security of tenure is not absolute.
If the Buhari Administration’s “Change” mantra is to be taken seriously, Mr. Emefiele must be shown the exit door without further delay by invoking the relevant portions of the CBN Act 2007 (particularly, Section 11(2)(c) thereof).
AdeoluOyinlola
Executive Director
Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI)
