aides met today to remove the Central Bank
Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi from office after the
governor told his staff yesterday that he can only be
removed by the President if 2/3rd majority members
of the Nigerian Senate decides against him in a vote.
Faced with that difficult choice since majority of his
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decamped to
the All Progressives Party (APC), the President and
his aides decided on the new strategy which was to
suspend the Central Bank Governor and use security
agencies to prevent him from entering the premises
of the bank until the end of his tenure in June 2014.
Mr. Sanusi became a high value target for the
President and his team after a letter he penned to
the President in September 2013 about the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC. In the letter
Mr. Sanusi accused the corporation of stealing $50
billion from proceeds of crude oil sales.
The later was later leaked to the press.
SaharaReporters was first to reveal the content of the
letter.
Mr. Jonathan and his aides of accuse Mr. Sanusi of
conniving with opposition politicians including
former President Olusegun Obasanjo to bring down
the Jonathan regime by leaking the letter.
The meeting today calculated that if Mr. Sanusi is
suspended, he will go to court to seek redress while
the President then appoints current Deputy Governor
of Financial System Stability, Kingsley Moghalu as
interim CBN Governor to oversee the affairs of the
bank until a substantive governor is appointed in
June.
Sources at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that
because Mr. Sanusi has remained adamant in
exposing the corruption perpetrated by the NNPC,
insisting that a proper audit of the account of the
corporation be carried out by an external auditor
especially after the NNPC could not still account for
$18 billion in crude oil sale between January 2012
and December 2013 in recent accounts reconciliation
meetings between the CBN and NNPC.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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