From Victor Osula, Abuja
After several months of playing hide and seek on his rumoured presidential ambition, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele, on Friday owned up and paid of N100 million for the nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was confirmed by the Finance Department of the party after which the form was released to him on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Emefiele’s decision to run for the office of the president in 2023 follows months of speculations and campaign by many shadow groups canvassing his aspiration across the country.
Emefiele had, in response to the controversy on his alleged moves to vie for Nigeria’s number one office, asked ‘speculators’ not to draw him in, and said, “everything is in the hand of God.”
THISAGE authoritatively gathered that Emefiele had been on the political radar of the governing party since the past two years when an influential figure in the current administration, late Ismaila Isa Funtua, sold the CBN Governor’s suitability to President Muhammadu Buhari.
With his death in July 2020 from heart attack, it is doubtful if Emefiele, who has bowed to the demands of some political interests to run for the office of the president, would have a smooth ride without fight for the country’s plum job.
