Just in: Debunking not enough, go to Court, Nigerians tell Emefiele
Following the front page story carried on The Nation today, March 13, 2023, titled: ‘Emefiele launches fresh plot against President-elect Tinubu’, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has swiftly reacted, describing the story as fake news.
However, many Nigerians have equally advised the embattled banker not to stop at mere debunking of the news, but go a step further and approach a court of competent jurisdiction to prove his innocence.
Business Hilights recalls that Emefiele had today, in a statement signed by the Acting Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Isa Abdulmumin, titled: “Re- Emefiele launches fresh plot against President-elect Tinubu,” denied the allegation in the report that he made N500m new notes available to the gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.
According to the CBN statement, “The attention of the CBN has been drawn to a story published in The Nation newspaper of Monday, March 13, 2023 edition, alleging that the Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele has launched a “fresh plot against President-elect”. “The aforementioned story went further to allege that the Governor has made certain amount of money available to a political aspirant ahead of March 18, 2023 gubernatorial poll.
“We wish to inform members of the public that this story is completely false and malicious as the Governor does not know and has never met or even spoke with Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour either in person or through proxy.
“We wish to reiterate that the CBN Governor does not take part in Politics and therefore urge anyone with contrary information to prove the Governor wrong should provide such facts.
“As such the Governor and team at the CBN should be allowed to focus on their assigned job with a view to achieving statutory mandates of the Bank.”
