PREMIUM TIMES also learnt that Mr Emefiele is planning to leave the country again, very soon.
Nigeria’s embattled Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, quietly returned to the country on Wednesday, sources in the apex bank and the presidency have told PREMIUM TIMES.
PREMIUM TIMES also learnt that Mr Emefiele is planning to leave the country again very soon, afraid the secret police could eventually arrest him amidst the continuous power play at the highest levels of the Nigerian government. In the application, the SSS wanted the court to order the arrest of the CBN governor over alleged “acts of financing terrorism, fraudulent activities and economic crimes of national security dimension.”
In rejecting the application, the judge said: “These are no doubt grave allegations, but which the applicant has not presented any concrete evidence to support.” Mr Tsoho ruled that considering the sensitive position held by Mr Emefiele, the permission of Mr Buhari ought to have been sought before the bank chief is arrested.
The judge also restrained the SSS “from instigating the arrest or arresting, interrogating and detaining” Mr Emefiele in respect of any matter or policy decision on the Nigerian economy “or for any connected purposes except by an order of a Superior Court.”Mr Emefiele has been in the news for the wrong reasons in recent times.violations of its own lawsHe not only joined the ruling All Progressives Congress but sought to be the president of Nigeria on the party’s platform.
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