A plot by “powerful individuals” in the business industry to prevail on President Bola Tinubu to stop the ongoing investigation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been exposed.
Recall that since President Tinubu came on board, the CBN and its former Governor, Godwin Emefiele have been under probe.
The Coalition for Transparency and Economic Reforms (COTER), which raised the alarm over what it described as the looming danger at the CBN said, “We also have it on good authority that some powerful individuals especially those in business who benefited from the malfeasance of the previous regime have perfected plans to prevail on President Tinubu to stop the ongoing probe of the CBN and GBEs by the Special Investigator, Jim Obazee.”
The President of COTER, Dr. Peter Chima Chukwu, in a statement in Abuja, alleged that the former Acting Governor, Folashodun Shonubi, refused to vacate office despite President Tinubu’s appointment of a substantive governor to replace him.
The President of the anti-corruption coalition, Dr. Chukwu, said information available to members indicates that his former deputies equally took a cue from him by resuming work on Monday.
Chukwu said: “ Our fear is that they could use the opportunity of their return to retrieve and destroy documents which could serve as evidence against them in court at the end of ongoing investigations into their activities.”
Disclosing the move by these individuals to stop the probe, the President of the anti-corruption coalition said, “Already, a team has been dispatched by this group of Nigerians to go ahead of President Tinubu to New York, where he’s currently attending a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to hold a meeting with him on the need to discontinue the ongoing probe of the apex bank by Obazee.”
Recall that President Tinubu had last Friday, through his spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, announced Dr Yemi Cardoso as the new CBN governor as well as four others as his deputy, pending their confirmation by the National Assembly.
