PRESIDENCY CALLS THE BLUFF OF SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI GOVERNOR OF CBN AND IMMEDIATELY APPOINTS AN ACTING GOVERNOR

 

DR SARAH ALADE IMMEDIATE LEFT

Apparently the FG couldn't take anymore again, the audacity and impunity with which the erstwhile Governor of the CBN had acted all this while, so they acted today with force, clamping down on the very outspoken Prince of Kano, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by placing him on suspension, though his tenure was only just remaining a few more months. 


Since the former CBN Governor had said at one time that he couldn't be sacked except by the House of Assembly, many had thought that he had become a bone in the throat of the powers that be in the Presidency and some of their supporters and had felt that the FG would have to make do and manage the so called excesses of the man, till the middle of the year. His outspokenness and his air of invincibility had irked many who had called severally for him to be axed.

But with the suspension placed on him now and the immediate appointment of an acting Governor, the FG might have played a masterstroke and most assuredly might get away with it. The only 2 institutions that might ask for a reversal of the suspension are the House of Assembly & the law courts. 

With the former, they can be convinced to foot drag and just act as if they are enraged while acting out a script. The reason for that might not be unconnected with the fact that the same CBN Governor had at one point accuse them of enjoying unnecessarily the Country's largesse. With the courts, it just depends also, there's just the 50/50 chance of an injunction to maintain status quo ante. If many would readily recall how the FG dealt with the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami of the Judiciary. With all the court injunctions given in favour of Justice Salami; they just continued on as if nothing had happened until the man reached the retirement age and just had to go.

The way it is now, the FG has not fully sacked him, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi might have played into the hands of a thoroughly embarrassed & unforgiven FG. 

So this might be the right time to say bye-bye to the great Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who came, saw and conquered at the height of his career.  The Prince of Kano's suspension was announced by the SA to the President on Media & Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati who also announced the name of the acting Governor, Dr. Sarah Alade. Dr. Alade is currently the most senior, Deputy Governor at the CBN. 

The 52 years old, would be 53 on July 31, 2014. He was appointed as the CBN Governor on June 3, 2009, succeeding Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo. He would have been

WAR OF WORDS BEGINS FEMI FANI-KAYODE REPLIES DR REUBEN ABATI

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                                               THE DELUSIONS OF TODAY'S MEN
I read Dr. Reuben Abati's article titled 'The Hypocrisy Of Yesterday's Men'' (3rd Feb.2013) which was published in virtually every newspaper in the country with amusement. He sought to ridicule and demean those of us that served President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and that are not very impressed with the performance of his boss. The fact that we asked President Goodluck Jonathan to account for the 67 billion USD that he squandered from our foreign reserves has clearly upset him. We dared to ask about the money and so we were singled out and targetted for a tongue-lashing and a long lecture from the Presidency. Yet we remain undeterred. This is how weak governments that have nothing to offer and something to hide always behave. They come after their perceived enemies with full force and they are petty and oversensitive. This is all the more so when they lack experienced hands and when they do not have anyone with deep insight or wisdom about the art of governance or politics within their ranks. In his response instead of answering our questions, addressing the issues or making any pertinent and sensible points about the numerous allegations against his principal, Abati chose to go on a delusional and self-serving joy ride. He simply refused to address any of our numerous concerns but instead indulged vainly in what can only be described as an utterly vulgar and distasteful form of intellectual, spiritual and psychological masturbation by telling us that he and his master were ''today's men'' who needed no lessons from the ''men of yesterday''. The essay was nothing but the usual smear campaign and a crude attempt to intimidate which has been the hallmark of this Government whenever they are faced with even the mildest form of criticism. I will not dignify most of the insulting and childish submissions that Abati indulged in with a response other than to say that he told a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as Minister of Aviation I ''shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years'' and ''allowed grass to grow all over it''. This is false. It is a classic case of disinformation coming from a man that is obviously suffering from a very low self-esteem.  It is clear that Abati, who is a journalist, has forgotten the most important tenet of his profession which is that ''facts are sacred and opinion is cheap''. Ordinarily one would have ignored his bitter rant but it is important that I set the record straight for the sake of posterity. 

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THE HYPOCRISY OF YESTERDAY'S MEN AS WRITTEN BY DR. REUBEN ABATI

A loosely bound group of yesterday’s men and women seems to be on the offensive against the Jonathan administration. They pick issues with virtually every effort of the administration, pretending to do so in the public interest; positing that they alone, know it all.  Arrogantly, they claim to be better and smarter than everyone else in the current government. They are ever so censorious, contrarian and supercilious. They have no original claim to their pretensions other than they were privileged to have been in the corridors of power once upon a time in their lives. They obviously got so engrossed with their own sense of importance they began to imagine themselves indispensable to Nigeria.  It is dangerous to have such a navel-gazing, narcissistic group inflict themselves with so much ferocity on an otherwise impressionable public. We are in reality dealing with a bunch of hypocrites.

With exceptions so few, they really don’t care about Nigeria as a sovereign but the political spoils that accrue from it.  And so they will stop at nothing to discredit those they think are not as deserving as they imagine themselves to be. President Jonathan has unfairly become the target of their pitiable frustrations.

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