Nigeria’s Treasury No Longer Save Under Emiefele- Human Rights Lawyer Asks Buhari To Sack CBN Gov.

Despite their bloated numbers, Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emiefele appears to be the most talked about presidential aspirants of the All Progressive Congress.

Emiefele picked his 100 million naira nomantion and expression of interest form on Friday after weeks of speculations and denials.

His decision to obtain the form has further thrown him up for criticisms as many Nigerians are now asking him to resign from office and calling on president Muhammadu Buhari to sack him if he refused to do the needful.

The recent of the calls was made by Human Rights Lawyer, Festus Ogun. 

Reacting to the development, the legal practitioner was of the opinion that Nigeria’s Treasury is no longer save in the hand of the CBN Governor having decided to join the race to Aso Rock while still in office.

He said, “CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has picked the  APC N100m presidential nomination and expression of interest form. Clearly, this is illegal, morally reprehensible and weakens whatever is left of our institutions.

“Section 9 of the CBN Act, 2007 provides that ‘the governor and the deputy governors shall devote the whole of their time to the service of the bank, and while holding office, shall not engage in any full or part-time employment or vocation, whether remunerated or not’.

“Politics is a vocation and the CBN Governor is not allowed by law to engage in partisan politics. It is unthinkable that Emefiele, despite his embarrassing failures, will disregard law and morality to vie for President under the ruling APC. Our national vault is no longer safe.

“Mr. Godwin Emefelie must immediately resign his position as CBN Governor to save our country from this unthinkable absurdity. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must immediately commence thorough investigation into Emefiele’s period in office.

“Finally, I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to invoke his statutory powers under Section 11(2) of the CBN Act to sack Emefiele. The National Assembly and civil society organizations are equally enjoined to intervene in this peculiar institutional desecration. All is not well.”