CONTROVERSIAL Lagos based clergyman, Pastor Tunde Bakare has made a statement, suggesting that President Bola Tinubu is engaging in ‘’political vendetta’’.
Pastor Bakare said that, though, suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria – CBN, Godwin Emefiele made wrong judgement calls in the management of the country’s monetary policy, he (Emefiele) must not be made a scapegoat by the Tinubu administration.
“If Emefiele is found liable for any crime, by all means, he should be prosecuted. However, considering the dynamics of the pre-election environment and the then-candidate Bola Tinubu’s public allegation that the naira redesign policy was targeted at him, the optics of the president targeting Emefiele for prosecution after winning the election and being sworn in as the president could be interpreted as a form of vendetta far beneath such a distinguished office,” Bakare said in an address broadcast on Sunday.
“Considering the claims of the DSS that its actions were in reaction to order from above, handling of Emefiele case has sent a signal to the world that the current president’s disposition to the war against corruption is primarily motivated by the clampdown on the perceived political adversaries, while various other enemies of Nigeria remain untouched,” Bakare added as he condemned the way the Department of State Services – DSS, is handling the case.
The Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church argued that there is every possibility that the erstwhile CBN governor did not act without presidential authorisation, considering the provisions of the CBN Act 2007.