Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to resign and stop embarrassing the country.
Ezekwesili’s reaction followed reports that Emefiele picked the All Progressives Congress N100 million presidential nomination and expression of interest form on Friday in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
“I just read your waffling neither-here-nor-there tweet reacting to news of your payment of N100M for the APC Nomination form for 2023 Presidential election,” Mrs Ezekwesili tweeted.
“Seems you did not read what the APC Spokesperson said to @Bloomberg . Resign. Stop embarrassing the country. Stop.”
The former minister also alleged that Emefiele handed over the apex bank’s control to the president since he assumed office.
She added that the “ill-advised monetary policies” of the bank in the last seven years were “political”.
“The wrong monetary policies put in place by Emefiele’s CBN since Buhari assumed office in 2015 were testament that the bank had handed over its independence to the president,” she said
She tweeted: “If you did not know all along that Nigeria’s serial wrong and ill-advised Monetary Policies of the last 7 years were political because the @cenbank long handed its independence to the Villa @NGRPresident @MBuhari , at least now you know. They’ve outed themselves. Finally.”
The former minister asked the CBN boss to resign his position and pursue his “ill-fated political career.”
“The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria @cenbank must now immediately tender his resignation to stop further destroying whatever little remains of the country’s monetary policy reputation,” she said.
“Mr Emefele should leave immediately- tonight- to pursue his ill-fated political career.”
