Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Friday put to bed speculations about his presidential ambition as he picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination and expression of interest form pegged at a whopping N100m.
Emefiele made this announcement at the State House, Abuja after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.
It was gathered that the CBN governor picked the N100 million forms from the party’s organising secretary at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, on Friday morning.
Following the emergence of the report, Nigerians have been condemning Emefiele, demanding for his resignation as the Governor of the country’s apex bank as many argued that emiefele’s political interest contravenes Section 1 (3) of the CBN Act.
Below here are some of the reactions harvested on social media;
“A serving CBN Governor is openly partisan.
The audacity of impunity.”(@seunonigbinde)
“If a CBN Governor is so flagrantly disobeying the CBN Act in public by engaging in political activities, now imagine the ways he must be flagrantly disobeying that same act in private.”(@Ambrosia_Ijebu)
“The audacity of Emefiele, a serving CBN Governor to obtain the presidential form of the APC shows there’s no one in charge of Nigeria at the moment. Buhari is just existing in Asorock with no clues as to what is going on under his nose. This brazen impunity scares me.”(@henryshield)
“CBN Governor destroyed the Naira & institutionalized arbitrage in the forex market. He restricted Fintechs & blocked bank account of peaceful EndSARS protesters. So where did Godwin Emefiele get the N100m for his APC presidential form? Any limit to this N100m declaration madness?”(@firstladyship)
“CBN Governor, Emiefele has also picked APC Presidential nomination form for N100m. He didn’t declare first, he went straight to buy form.”(@poojamedia)
“A sitting CBN Governor is showing us that he’s partisan, and he’s confidently trying to contest without resigning that non partisan position. Morally bankrupt and 0 ethics. The international Finance community should note the Government interference in Monetary policy.”(@dondekojo)
“Emefiele is now poking his fingers at us and our law. This is just beyond contemplation, reason, and logic that a sitting CBN Governor is not only a closet member of a political party, he’s actively taking part in a partisan contest in defiance of Section 1 (3) of of the CBN Act, 2007 which secures the independence of CBN. Section 9 of the Act talks about the Governor having no other vocation than running the CBN. If this isn’t vocation for politics, nothing is. Terrible.”(@AbdulMahmud01)
