Tinubu/Emefiele
The recent calculated attacks on People Democratic Party (PDP) appointed Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele , whose survival in an All Progressives Congress (APC) government despite untold breaches including a daring move to run for the Presidential ticket and even a terrorist affiliation, by the candidate of the ruling party- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu- has been the stuff of interest to political watchers.
An attack first launched during the Abeokuta rally by the Presidential candidate was first widely misinterpreted by the press as an attack on the President, but was quickly clarified by the candidate as an attack on fifth columnists who are determined to smear the hard work of the party as it warmed up for elections.
Who could this fifth columnists be? What could their goal be? Why is the APC just waking up to this reality?
Investigations by our correspondent, covering over twenty five interview hours, nocturnal meetings and deliberate lead follow ups began during the Christmas period as the various shady characters that have dominated the airwaves recently for unlikely reasons were revealed by our work.
Act 1, Scene 1 has to be dubious emergence of a failed banker as the head of the nation’s apex institution after the sack of a celebrated reformist in former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamidi Sanusi who spoke up against PDP’s grand corruption during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) proliferate era of waste and grand corruption. This dated back to the prior PDP administration.
It was said that Godwin Emefiele was nominated by Jim Ovia to Goodluck essentially to launder money, and having executed this operation for ages he was successfully installed after mindless bribery of major legislators was promised and commitments made to enable PDP loot the treasury in 2015 election cycle.
Unbeknownst to PDP, their nominated two faced governor first “unclass” act when the Buhari administration resumed office was to provide receipts of transfers he made to the party and enemies of the President, to quickly warm his way into his heart while submitting to fund the president programs especially agriculture and manufacturing to anchor his helpfulness during the dark days of the 2105/16 recession. This included ways and means advancement above legal limits to bail out states and the Federal government to avoid shutdown.
To further warm himself to the President, the CBN was the direct sponsor of the treatment of the President overseas when he was ill using his robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) budget as an independent institution to buy access to the Villa, and for which the President always feel indebted.
In addition to this, he also ensured the inner cabinet of the President benefitted enormously from Central Bank largesse of dual forex rates that enabled them reap boundless legal profits every week by allocation $1 million weekly to the members of the “cabal” who have in turn promised to protect him. Indeed, BDC licenses and other largesse were faithfully doled out to these non -APC members who practically hijacked the Buhari government during his first tenure when he was not healthy and were the arrow head of cutting the Vice President to size in the second term.
It was said that one of the closest aides to the President who was a known recharge card seller prior to 2015 is now a choice property owner in Dubai, while he has faithfully served as a mole in the office of the President to secure appointments and offer protection to the Governor who was encouraged to disrupt the party primaries last summer by seeking such elective office while refusing to resign. The said arrowhead is said to be very good at reading the President’s mood and supplanting the desires to discipline Emefiele (even when he annoys the President and the party apparatchiks call for sanction), because of his filial relationship to Buhari who is widely said to value loyalty more than any other attributes in aides.
Notwithstanding this situation, upon Emefiele’s loss of APC’s ticket, the arrowhead working with some fifth columnists reliably settled on Governor Emefiele original “PDP” origin to engage Abubakar Atiku to continue their reign of madness after 2023 in the Central Bank on the condition of backing him.
This deal was finalized (away from the President’s keen eyes) in November/December 2022 during Emefiele’s long sojourn overseas when the Department of State Service sought him out on corruption charges and affiliation with terrorists which was said to have occurred when he sought to buy a banking license through fronts from the Middle East.
The deal with PDP which was arranges by Emefiele’s townsman, Vice Presidential nominee of the PDP and Governor of Delta state Okowa, was designed to give the PDP leverage in using the inefficiency of the current government during election period by way of Sabotage of currency and fuel distribution operations. It was however the CBN Governor who first gave the idea after he got presidential approval for changing the colour of naira notes. Indeed he had the power to make forex scarce also for NNPC as APC entered the last Christmas before elections.
It took direct intervention of the fifth columnists again to bring the Governor back to Nigeria after a massive widely reported contention between the DSS and the Nigeria Intelligence Agency for which the aide of the President worked. It was NIA that released spurious intelligence to cover the CBN governor that his work with the terrorist organization was a sting operation by them, that enabled DSS to stand down.
As soon as Emefiele returned, he was back to work on the grand plan to destroy APC leveraging a policy he had sold an APC President on security and anti-corruption grounds (two of his favorite subject) before his ill-fated travel to deal with Atiku and PDP. Indeed, it was this nexus operations cracked by Asiwaju’s own sources that he was referring to at Abeokuta. This was again repeated in Akwa-Ibom yesterday by the candidate who has since been well briefed of the plans.
What is left to be seen is if the APC will wake up to the reality that the remnant of PDP nomination in their government called Emefiele, may well be the Achilles knees in February elections or if they will submit like the overzealous housefly determined to follow a dead body to its grave. Time will tell.
Tanko Yusuf is a Senior Investigative Reporter based in Yola
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