REVEALED: HOW FORMER CBN GOVERNOR LAMIDO SANUSI BEGGED NORTHERN LEADERS

 

REVEALED: HOW FORMER CBN GOVERNOR LAMIDO SANUSI BEGGED SULTAN AND KANO EMIR TO INTERCEDE AND AVERTED SACK IN 2012

It is no longer news that Kano Prince Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been sent packing from the CBN. According to reports, the events leading to his sack started sometimes late in 2011 when after the Presidency noticed the way he was spending, some external auditors were said to have been sent in to look at the books of the Apex bank and it was allegedly found that there were overwhelming anomalies which were committed under the leadership of the then CBN Governor. City People gathered that when the then Governor found out the implications of what had happened, he allegedly went ahead to meet the Sultan of Sokoto as well as the Emir of Kano in order for them to plead for a soft landing for him.


Based on the intervention of the two traditional rulers, Jonathan was alleged to have agreed that he would not be disgraced out of office only that once his tenure expired, it would not be renewed. Curiously, shortly after the President agreed, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi allegedly came out to say that he would not be seeking reappointment as CBN governor. Not only this, from then on, he adopted a new and more confrontational attitude towards the President. City People gathered that given the agreement the President had reached over the issues in the report, the President was allegedly reluctant in moving against Sanusi.

This was more so since the men who allegedly pleaded with him to allow the former CBN governor to stay were key to his re-election plan. When eventually he could take it no more, the President was said to have used the opportunity of his visit to Sokoto to inform the Sultan that there was no way he could continue to keep Sanusi as the latter was giving the government a bad name with his attacks. City People also gathered that the audit reports also clearly showed that the former Governor allegedly spent so much empowering those who were perceived as the enemies of the President or who stood out against the President.

City People also gathered that before the removal was announced, the leadership of the Senate was informed about what he had done and how the need had arisen to ensure that someone who was more of an introvert be found to take over hence the speed with which the nomination of the Zenith Bank was done.