Following his appointment by President Bola Tinubu on Friday Adebisi Shonubi, the magazine learnt will resume office next week.
Even though his appointment, according to the Presidency took immediate effect after the suspension of Godwin Emefiele from the position, sources in the apex bank said Shonubi will not resume fully until next week Tuesday due to the June 12 Public holiday declared by the federal government.
“The Acting CBN Governor will resume office fully next Tuesday bearing in mind that his appointment was made in the weekend,” one source said tersely on Saturday morning.
Shonubi’s appointment comes on the heel of the suspension of Godwin Emefiele as the CBN boss by President Bola Ahmed Tiunubu.
The embattled apex bank governor is now in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, following his arrest on Friday.
A statement by the Office to the Government of the Federation, SGF, said Emefiele is under investigation for allegations bordering on his mismanagement of the CBN.
Shonubi has now taken his position, the federal government said late Friday night in a statement posted on Twitter by Bayo Onanuga, a media aide to the president.
Before his appointment, Shonubi was the Deputy Governor, Operations Directorate of the apex bank
Onanuga said, “Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi is the CBN acting governor. He has been since October 2018, the Deputy Governor, Operations Directorate. He was born on the 7th of March, 1962. He attended the University of Lagos from 1978 to 1983 and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
