{"id":8063,"date":"2022-05-12T21:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T21:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2022-05-12T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T21:35:55","slug":"emefiele-meets-buhari-says-nigerians-can-have-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8063","title":{"rendered":"Emefiele Meets Buhari, Says Nigerians Can Have Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said his fate is still being decided as regards the controversy surrounding his rumoured presidential bid.<\/p>\n

When newsmen approached him on Thursday after meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja with the notion that his current position as a presidential aspirant and the CBN governor is a major point of concern for Nigerians and even the international community, Emefiele replied, \u201cLet them have heart attacks. It\u2019s good to have a heart attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is as he said that despite the current outrage by Nigerians, the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, and the international community, he is \u201chaving fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Emefiele\u2019s assertion comes barely 24 hours after the President ordered members of his cabinet vying for various elective positions to resign on or before May 16, 2022. Also, a circular<\/a> signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, with reference number SGF\/OP\/ I\/S.3\/XII\/ 173, titled, \u2018Ministers, heads of government agencies, ambassadors and other appointees with political ambitions to resign\u2019,\u00a0ordered all heads of agencies, departments, parastatals, and ambassadors with political ambitions to resign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Friday, a group of farmers and businesspersons had purchased the N100m presidential nomination forms of the ruling All Progressive Congress for Emefiele, a move he said he did not influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CBN Governor had earlier gone to court to challenge the Public Service Rule that requires public office holders to resign their positions before contesting elective positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to respond to reports that Buhari had directed him to resign, Emefiele said, \u201cThere is no news now, but there will be news. You heard me, I said there is no news but there will be news\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, after its 96th National Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday night restated its call for Emefiele\u2019s sacking, arrest and investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said his fate is still being decided as regards the controversy surrounding his rumoured presidential bid. When newsmen approached him on Thursday after meeting with the President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja with the notion that his current position as a presidential aspirant and the CBN governor is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2926,191,382,686],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-godwin-emefiele","tag-heart-attack","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-nigerians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}