Fani Kayode Calls For The Arrest of  Emefiele, Says He Wants To Scuttle Election; Calls Him Dangerous

By Gideon Njoku

Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, has called for the sack, arrest and detention of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele.

The APC chieftain described  Emefiele as a dangerous man whose plan is to cause chaos, and  scuttle the Presidential election along with other anti-democratic elements.

Fani-Kayode made this call in a series of tweets  in reaction to the crisis that has bedeviled Nigeria since the redesign of some denominations of the Naira and the swap.

His Principal, Tinubu, had more than hinted that the redesign policy of the Naira was targeted at the Presidential election, and by extention, at him to stop him from victory. He described the exercise as ill-timed, just as he said that the unending fuel scarcity is deliberate.

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, in the past three days, has been agreeing with Tinubu’s opinion, blaming those he referred to as the cabal in the Aso Rock Vliia who are working against Tinubu for the debacle.

The crushing scarcity of the Naira has led  to excruciating suffering in the land. Fights have broken out in banking halls and at ATM and POS centres, and at least, three deaths have been reported.

At least ten people have stripped themselves naked in banking halls.

On Thursday, Emefiele said the CBN has ordered banks to start dispensing 20 thousand Naira only, per day, per person, of the new notes. But that has not helped. And is not being done in most banks.

On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari, after a meeting with the APC Governors Forum, asked for seven days to sort the problem out, and blamed “greediness” for the difficulties being experienced. The Governors  had appealed to him to allow the use of the old and new notes side-by-side to reduce the hardship people are going through.

But Fani-Kayode in his tweet, said Emefiele would never release the new notes until March. Meaning the release would be after the Presidential election. He, therefore, called for Emefiele’s arrest.

He tweeted: “Let me make this clear. Emefiele has NO intention of releasing new Naira notes until March. He wants people to suffer, he wants chaos, & he wants to scuttle the election.

“He is a dangerous pawn in the hands of sinister anti-democratic forces. Remove, arrest, & detain him NOW”!