Peterwins: From the listed six contenders (though others exist), I will pick Dr Sarah Alade because:



She will need to lobby the world bank, IMF, the Presidency and most importantly GOD to get the job. I will be glad if she becomes the first female CBN governor in Nigeria just as we now have the first female CJN heading the judiciary.

X-factoria:


Obviously, you need some schooling on the difference between fiscal policy (government revenue e.g. taxes, tarrifs, duties etc and trade agreements, budget - planning and implementation, debt management, government liquidity etc) and monetary policy (macroeconomics - interest rates, inflation, money supply - controlling the amount of money in circulation, a lender of last resort - this is where banking supervision comes in etc).

In actual fact the job of a CBN Governor goes beyond being able to manage monetary policy, he also has to see to how that policy impacts the economy in the following ways: economic developmental planning, creating new wealth and economic prosperity through SME initiatives etc.

So does anyone here still think that a lawyer, an accountant, a mathematician and a commercial bank CEO can function effectively as the CBN Governor?? The experience of a bank CEO can only help in banking supervision which is just one of many functions of the CBN and I don't just see how knowing how to balance books would help much in that position as well. As for those clamoring for Chike-Obi, you should get it by now that the job is beyond him. I don't know how a mathematician cum investment banker would be able to function as CBN Governor. I am attending business school in the United States and the only economics I know and that is ever taught in business school is Managerial Economics. Experience working in financial services cannot substitute formal schooling and deep knowledge of other aspects of economics. Clout does not cut it either. AMCON was set up to manage toxic bank assets which the banks sold off their books. Running it is an investment banking - asset management job and Mustafa Chike-Obi is undoubtedly a good fit for that but not a CBN Governor.

Everywhere in the world, the position of a central bank chief goes to seasoned economists who have done a lot of work (by work, I mean research) and have contributed to the understanding of the macro and micro variables that drive their local economy. In our case in Nigeria, it would not cut it to go and bring a foreign trained Nigerian economists who is seasoned in western economic theories alone. Whether the person is currently abroad or is based in Nigeria, the occupier of that position should be familiar with the Nigerian economy through and through and should have easily accessible published papers to prove that.

In the this list of 6 names, Dr. Sarah Alade is the only person that can even pass for nomination. She should be critically examined in a pool comprising other candidates. I am tempted to say that we should look among the very bright scholars in the economics departments of our universities.

gbanikiti: Since women are occupying the key ministerial posts,I support Sarah Alade. She should join the female gang too. What a man can do,a woman does it perfectly well

Oh! I miss Dora Akunyili so much!

Femolacaster:
It is only in PDP that we have zoning formula. I think everybody should clamour for competent hand rather than resort to tribalism and sentimentalism.

Peterwins: From the listed six contenders (though others exist), I will pick Dr Sarah Alade because:



She will need to lobby the world bank, IMF, the Presidency and most importantly GOD to get the job. I will be glad if she becomes the first female CBN governor in Nigeria just as we now have the first female CJN heading the judiciary.

Willywilly7:
If you don't allow the Yorubas they are going to commit mass suicide

IYA NGBALI: very dry joke,your cousin in a psychiatric hospital can do better. Oponu alakori,keep hating.

amakenny: Appointment to man a country's Central Bank must go to the most professionally qualified. Or, as well as considering qualifications, must Nigeria continue to use quota system or consideration of a candidate's geopolitical zone to employ its Central Bank governor?? Do prosperous countries in Europe, Americas and Asia also use quota system or consder ethnicitty or geopolitical background, aside professonal qualification to fill such position as Central Bank Governor? Must Nigeria be continued to be held hostage by a system that has failed it all the years regarding recruitment of experienced professionals to fill proffessional positions?