A Niger Delta Youth leader and businessman, Richard Akinaka, has slammed the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN,Godwin Emefiele, over his continued denial and stay in office to join the 2023 Presidential race under the All Progressive Congress, APC.
He described Emefiele a morally weak aspirant hiding behind double speak to contest for Presidency and should be disqualified.
Richard said though he has nothing against anyone with the requisite qualifications to seek political office, Emefule vying for political office while still occupying the office of governor at the apex bank is a gross violation of ethics and gross misconduct not needed for anyone vying for such exalted office.
According to Akinaka, 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.”
He pointed out that “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 of managing the country’s economy still want further wreck the entire country.”
“Every young Nigerian, especially those of us within the gap bracket of 40 years and below, should be concerned with what is going on in this country to the extent that it is should be our priority to decide what the next set of leadership we desire. Because, we have a great stake in this country now.”
“But in the interim, what is the major issue now is the level of decadence in our public sector. The loss of value to the extent that public offices have now being driven by the whims and caprices of those who occupy them.”
“I see no reason why the Central Bank Governor will be politically exposed . Though, he has a right as a Nigerian to contest election, he has a right to pursue is political aspirations but not at the expense of the office, he occupies. When campaigns, Billboards and branded cars and posters are everywhere about his ambition and he is denying it.”
“But right now, it is on record that nomination form has been bought and according to him or media reports, it was bought by local farmers. A form worth 100 million naira! It is not true. With the level of hunger ravaging this country, I don’t think the local farmers have the money to make such contributions.”
“It is rather unfortunate that he cannot come out boldly to own up to his aspiration because he doesn’t want to resign his from his office and this is the height of immoral and irresponsiblities and for me this alone should disqualifies him.”
“In any case,what does the CBN governor Emefiele has to offer to Nigeria seeing the level of the economy woes we have in this country under his watch? What else does he have to offer this country that he has not done?
“So, I am calling on the National Assembly, as a matter of urgency, to enact a law so that people in public offices will not have the undue advantage to use government resources and influence to pursue their political aspirations. What is going on is wrong , Emefiele has a mark of honour which i know he has lost and should resign immediately and save the sanctity of that office if he wants to contest.”
It will be recalled that a coalition of rice farmers and other crop growers purpotedly moved to drag the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele into the 2023 presidential race by purchasing the N100 million All Progressives Congress’ Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for him. A position he, Emefiele has denied.
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 of managing the country’s economy still want further wreck the entire country.
His words: “every young Nigerian especially those of us within the gap bracket of 40 years and below should be concerned with what is going on in this country to the extent that it is should be our priority to decide what the next set of leadership because we have a great stake in this country now but in the interim what is the major issue now is the level of decadence in our public sector, the loss of value to the extent that public offices have now being driven by the whims and caprices of those who occupy them.”
“I see no reasn why the central bank governor will be politically exposed . Though he has a right as a Nigerian to contest election, he has a right to pursue is political aspirations but not at the expense of the office, he occupies. When campaigns, Billboards and branded cars and posters are everywhere about his ambition and he denied it
“But right now it is on record that form has been bought and according to him or media reports it was bought by local farmers , a form worth 100 million naira, which is not true. With the level of hunger ravaging this country, I don’t think the local farmers have the money to make such contributions.
It is rather unfortunate that he cannot come out boldly to own up to his aspiration because he doesn’t want to resign his from his office and this is the height of immoral and irresponsibility and for me this alone should disqualifies him .
“In any case, what does the CBN governor Emefiele has to offer to Nigeria seeing the level of the economy woos we have in this country under his watch? What else does he have to offer this country that he has not done?
“So, I am calling on the National Assembly as a matter of urgency to enact a law so that people in public offices will not have the undue advantage to use government resources and influence to pursue their political aspirations.
“What is going on is wrong , Emefiele has a mark of honour whixh i know he has lost and should resign immediately and save the sanctity of that office if he wants to contest.”
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