The controversy surrounding the planned exit of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, deepened on Thursday with the governor insisting that he would not quit the post until his term expired on June 2, 2014.

In keeping with his vow, which analysts see as a direct confrontation with President Goodluck Jonathan, Sanusi has said he will not proceed on his terminal leave in March as initially being speculated.The President had reportedly asked the CBN governor to resign immediately because of the alleged deliberate leakage of the letter that Sanusi wrote to him in which the governor accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of not remitting $49.8bn crude oil revenue to the Federation Account.Sanusi was said to have denied leaking the letter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo or anyone for that matter, and allegedly told the President that he could only be removed by two-thirds of members of the Senate as required by law.The governor reportedly told the President that the letter was available in the Presidential Villa, the Ministry of Finance and the CBN, and wondered how he could be accused of leaking it.

One of our correspondents learnt on Thursday that Sanusi expressed his determination to remain in office until the expiration of his one-term tenure of five years on June 2 during a meeting with top management officers of the bank on Wednesday.The Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Mr. Ugochukwu Okoroafor, confirmed the development in a chat with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Thursday.He said the governor used the opportunity provided by the “family meeting” to clear doubts surrounding the expiration of his tenure.Okoroafor said, “The CBN is an important organisation in the economy of this country and we have to be careful in whatever we do because our actions send a strong message to the economy as a whole.“The governor had a meeting with officials of the central bank and it was like a family meeting; and in that meeting, he made it clear that he is not going anywhere until his tenure expires in June.“He is not proceeding on retirement leave by March as being speculated; rather, he will be retiring on June 2 this year when he will be completing his five-year single tenure.”According to Okoroafor, the CBN governor will formally announce his retirement in March, when his successor is expected to be named, and will remain in office until June 2.

Both chambers of the National Assembly declined comments on the alleged plan by the Federal Government to sack Sanusi.The spokesperson for the Senate, Eyinnaya Abaribe, and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, said the National Assembly would not be dragged into “a mere rumour.”Abaribe, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said, “The Senate will not make any comment on any issue that is not before it. It remains a rumour until it is properly communicated to the Senate.”Mohammed also said, “I have no comment to make. The National Assembly as an institution will not be dragged into any controversy based on a mere allegation.”Efforts to get the Presidency’s reaction did not yield any positive result as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Dr. Reuben Abati, did not respond to calls made to his mobile telephone line, nor respond to text messages sent to the same line.


http://www.punchng.com/news/i-wont-quit-before-june-sanusi-dares-jonathan/

Oya cow-boy try your might in the houses, kindly call for SLS removal.... Mhm begining of 2015 only fools will not understand what this mean. The president who sent finance minister for budget presentation for the fear of been disgrace, tell me how would he call for the removal of SLS? Heads are rolling

GEJ should just remove the Aboki forcefully if he remains defiant or declare his position vacant, GEJ is just too quiet to be a President that is the reason everyone insults him and gets away with it, during OBJ regime he was terrorising everyone with EFCC.

Now I miss Abacha

winniz: GEJ should just remove the Aboki forcefully if he remains defiant or declare his position vacant, GEJ is just too quiet to be a President that is the reason everyone insults him and gets away with it, during OBJ regime he was terrorising everyone with EFCC.

How should he go about that?

At Mynd 44

GEJ by March should give him a dismissal letter, If he refuses to resign he should apply force by Locking up his Office and getting him arrested as well, it was GEJ that employed him so if his services are no longer needed he can be sacked as well, Sanusi has always been incompetent to be the CBN Governor for crying out Loud, all his banking policies has always be useless that Mallam should just go.

winniz: At Mynd 44

GEJ by March should give him a dismissal letter, If he refuses to resign he should apply force by Locking up his Office and getting him arrested as well, it was GEJ that employed him so if his services are no longer needed he can be sacked as well, Sanusi has always been incompetent to be the CBN Governor for crying out Loud, all his banking policies has always be useless that Mallam should just go.

GEJ does not have the powers to lock up his office, he does not have the powers to get him arrested and GEJ alone did not employ him. He was nominated and the senate confirmed him. How this works is that if he is to be fired then the same process that brought him in is the one that can force him out which involves the president and the senate.

The president can't act unilaterally in this case

We propose that all our political leaders have one term of 5 years.

Mynd_44:
GEJ does not have the powers to lock up his office, he does not have the powers to get him arrested and GEJ alone did not employ him. He was nominated and the senate confirmed him. How this works is that if he is to be fired then the same process that brought him in is the one that can force him out which involves the president and the senate.

The president can't act unilaterally in this case

I said he should be given a Sack letter if he refuses to resign he should apply force. GEJ has the right to sack him after all OBJ sacked Ministers during his tenure and their was no process involved, so why would GEJs own be different?

because the president has shows nigerian he don't have any b**L to act

winniz: At Mynd 44

GEJ by March should give him a dismissal letter, If he refuses to resign he should apply force by Locking up his Office and getting him arrested as well, it was GEJ that employed him so if his services are no longer needed he can be sacked as well, Sanusi has always been incompetent to be the CBN Governor for crying out Loud, all his banking policies has always be useless that Mallam should just go.

Henhen? We shall see.

winniz:
I said he should be given a Sack letter if he refuses to resign he should apply force. GEJ has the right to sack him after all OBJ sacked Ministers during his tenure and their was no process involved, so why would GEJs own be different?

The office of the Central Bank Governor is not a ministerial appointment. It is one that involves a 4 year term which a candidate is endorsed by the president and confirmed by the senate. A minister on the other hand can be fired anytime and retired but not the CBN governor.

GEJ cannot issue him a sack letter, it is impossible and void. If you want a CBN governor out, you need the president and 2/3 of the senate else, he stays.

Mynd_44:
The office of the Central Bank Governor is not a ministerial appointment. It is one that involves a 4 year term which a candidate is endorsed by the president and confirmed by the senate. A minister on the other hand can be fired anytime and retired but not the CBN governor.

GEJ cannot issue him a sack letter, it is impossible and void. If you want a CBN governor out, you need the president and 2/3 of the senate else, he stays.

Thank you, for clearing his head, You know, its good if all of us can start doing this enlightenment program whenever the opportunity arises so that ignorant peeps won't always believe that this Nation is a lawless one where anything goes. Otherwise the crop of Leaders we have now will be a serious joke compare to the ones to come.

abbakacici: because the president has shows nigerian he don't have any b**L to act

I thought you're studying in UK?

Yeye dey smell.....

president Jonathan as a person is a disgrace to the office of President of Nigeria & those who sentimentally & emotionally voted for him.

I like SLS......he is too stubborn for GEJ.
This president had better just leave the matter alone before he is disgraced into recanting his words as is his usual manner.
SLS is staying put till June, a zillion GEJs cannot shake him
My humble submission

Why won't he dare the president, when they know Effc is now a toothless bulldog. Nigerians don't need soft easy going leaders, they need leaders as hard as hitler but still maintains decorum.

winniz: GEJ should just remove the Aboki forcefully if he remains defiant or declare his position vacant, GEJ is just too quiet to be a President that is the reason everyone insults him and gets away with it, during OBJ regime he was terrorising everyone with EFCC.

the good book said, "my people perish because of the lack of knowledge"

so you mean you are yet to comprehend that the president lack the power to sack him come to talk off declaring the seat of a serving CBN governor vacant who has not trialed of fraud or stealing.

winniz:
I said he should be given a Sack letter if he refuses to resign he should apply force. GEJ has the right to sack him after all OBJ sacked Ministers during his tenure and their was no process involved, so why would GEJs own be different?

These are the kind of daft people that whisper into GEJ's ear to sack Lamido, and the daft phd holder won't remind them he needs clearance from the legislators to do so.

Sanusi Lamido is not a minister. Please calm down and read well, biko.

If he is put under house arrest for being a big threat not just to the economy but the state with all his uncouth outbursts (and you know he did reaa damage with those open letters) and his deputy told to take over till june, what will your likes do other than to go to premium times and sahara reporters to moan and whine as usual? ACN memebers of APC would even abandon their suport for him pronto since his deputy might be from the sw as clannish traits take over. His fulani royal heritage is getting into his small brain but who cares apart from those who want to? Two sitting sultans were disgraced in this country and nothing happened. Before then, tales have it that the sun wont set if you do as much as look into the face of a sultan.. Go figure. Blame GEJ for his calm approach otherwise this guy would have gone by now if a tougher character is at the helm..

Mynd_44:
GEJ does not have the powers to lock up his office, he does not have the powers to get him arrested and GEJ alone did not employ him. He was nominated and the senate confirmed him. How this works is that if he is to be fired then the same process that brought him in is the one that can force him out which involves the president and the senate.

The president can't act unilaterally in this case