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Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari, not to approve any study leave for any officer critical to the take-off of the incoming administration.
Matawalle in a Press statement he personally signed on Monday, said such persons that has been speculated in the media to have sought a study leave is Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, (CBN) Godwin Emefiele, saying If the leave has been approved, as reported in the media, the President should cancel it in the interest of peaceful transfer of power.
The governor praised President Buhari and his wife Aisha Buhari for showing they want a seamless orderly and peaceful transfer of power to the incoming administration.
He however said, other officers in government have acted in a different manner. They are behaving as if they want to put spanners in the work for the incoming regime.
The statement reads:
“This is the import of this press statement today. I want, here and now, to urge President Buhari to not approve any study leave or whatever kind of leave for any officer critical to the take-off of the incoming administration of Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“One of such persons that has been speculated in the media to have sought a study leave is Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele. If the leave has been approved, as reported in the media, the President should cancel it in the interest of peaceful transfer of power, accountability and good governance.
“CBN Governor Emefiele superintended over the management of the country’s financial and monetary systems. He is the one who initiated and implemented the recent disastrous Naira swap policy, the Naira confiscation program, which put Nigerians through untold woes and trauma and set our economy backwards.
“Two of my brother-governors and I took the Federal Government to court over this ill-advised policy and fought resolutely until we got a respite for our people from Emefiele and company.
“This same Emefiele now wants to proceed on study leave when he has some 10 months left of his tenure apparently in a bid to evade rendering accounts. This is unacceptable. President Buhari should not countenance this.
” Emefiele must stay at his job to give full accounts of all that transpired under his watch to the incoming administration. He must answer all the questions the new regime may have for him particularly when he still has some months left of his tenure”.