Displeasure has trailed the news of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, after he picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The Leadng reports that Emefiele picked the N100 million forms from the party’s organising secretary at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, on Friday morning after months of speculations regarding his political aspirations.
Some angry Nigerians who took to social media to express their anguish, lamented that Emefiele was gunning for the presidency when the country’s economy is in a shambles
While others wondered the audacity of such move in a country with leaders.
See some tweets below:
A serving CBN Governor is openly partisan.
The audacity of impunity.
— Olúseun Onígbíńdé (@seunonigbinde) May 6, 2022
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.
— Henry Shield (@henryshield) May 6, 2022
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?
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) May 6, 2022
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 https://t.co/N3bUoYRAJI
— Dr Great Oracle (@AbdulMahmud01) May 6, 2022
Patriotic Nigerians must demand for the compulsory resignation of the current CBN Governor because of his brazen partisanship!This is very shameful for a democracy like ours.His position is completely untenable
#Resignemefiele#— Udoh (@Udocas2017) May 6, 2022
The CBN governor and his deputies should be nonpartisan. Period. Having said that, I could not find anything in the CBN ACT of 2007 that bar him from joining politics. Perhaps another law does that I am not aware of. The law needs to be amended ASAP.https://t.co/oM49Hk4QeE https://t.co/DvZzMgR7w4 pic.twitter.com/N2p2t9OCE6
— Waheed Alabede – Gaskiya Tafi Kobo (@wFalabede) May 6, 2022
