Former President Buhari has explained why he never sack former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, when there were speculations about Emefiele’s presidential ambition, emphasizing that Emefiele never discussed it with him.
This was made known in a memoir titled “Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015 – 2023)”, written by former Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, and presented in Abuja on Tuesday, January 16.
The book also put up the former President’s defense of his administration’s Naira redesign policy, implemented by the then, Emefiele, saying it helped the country achieve a clean general election in 2023.
According to the memoir, the former President maintained that those who had a problem with the policy were individuals who had too much money.
In the book’s 12th chapter, the former President said;
“The scarcity of money was not deliberately done to punish Nigerians. Democracy allows people to express their will, and we did not attempt to control them. People understood the implications of their choices, and we did not force them. My state, Katsina, showed the beauty of the whole system. In the Presidential poll, APC lost, but they came back to win the governorship. Maybe they took things for granted earlier because it was my state, and they thought they would win easily. People do not like being taken for granted.
I met Emefiele in office when I came, and unless there was firm evidence against him, it would be unfair and an act of injustice to remove him, acting on hearsay.
If you punish a man unjustly, it could dog his footsteps throughout life, so if you would punish, you must have evidence and you should know that yourself wouldn’t be there forever. You would leave one day.”
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