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The threat from the north is absurd. They don't own all Nigerian vote but only own part of it. It's time to tell them this

Northern Elites Against Relocation Of Central Bank, FAAN Are Protecting Own Interest, Their Children Who See Abuja As Comfort Zone —Maiyaki

Ahmed Maiyaki, a former spokesman for the Kaduna State Government has said that those speaking against President Tinubu’s approval for the relocation of the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and some Central Bank of Nigeria departments from Abuja to Lagos are doing that for selfish reasons.

He said the condemnation of the move was for their interests and not for the common people from the northern part of the country.

Mr Maiyaki said this during a live programme on Arise News TV monitored by SaharaReporters on Friday.

According to him, there are many significant issues affecting the northerners beyond that of CBN and FAAN.

SaharaReporters reported on Monday that Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) kicked against President Tinubu’s approval for the relocation of the headquarters of the FAAN and some CBN departments from Abuja to Lagos.

The national publicity secretary of the forum, Prof. Muhammad Baba, described the move as a deliberate plot against the Northern region.

Reacting to the condemnation the move has generated in the North, the former spokesperson for the Kaduna Government said the Tinubu government decided to ensure efficiency and not to favour the Southwestern region contrary to what the ACF and other groups had claimed.

He said, “With all sense of respect, the northern leaders have the right to air their views. They have every reason to say something that protects the interests of the North. However, we need to know ‘what are the other issues that are more critical to the North that we expect the Northern leaders, either at the level of ACF or other critical groups to come to speak for the common man in the North?’

“Let’s take an example, for me as a Northerner, I believe strongly they are speaking to protect their own interest because if you check from 2019 - I challenge these leaders -we should have agencies of government like the CBN to publish the names of people that were secretly recruited.

“Most of these children are children of the political elites. These are children that have schooled abroad in the UK, in the, you know, New York. And they are back in Abuja in their comfort zone and they do not want to move out of Abuja.”

He said there had been no recruitment process in the bank that considered the children of the common man.

He said, “To be honest, you know we have many critical issues. We have the kidnapping issues, we have the banditry issues and besides, the CBN, for instance, is not moving completely to Lagos. There are 29 departments.

“For the record, I’m not a staff of CBN, I’m not speaking on behalf of CBN, but if you make a simple research, you will realize there are 29 departments in the CBN and only four out of these 29 departments are affected. And it’s not like the entire departments are moving to Lagos.

“You know, some staff, particularly those in the banking supervision and consumer protection, you know, are charged with the responsibility of supervising banks. The entire banks of this country are located in Lagos. Their headquarters are in Lagos. How do you supervise banks while you are in Abuja?

“For the records, I have not seen any statement coming from the CBN, but of course a simple check will tell you. Like a lot of commentators have said their staff travel all the way to Lagos at intervals of two weeks to supervise these banks.”

He described such regular travels between Abuja and Lagos as risky, adding, “The issue is they are too comfortable to just remain of Abuja, in Maitama, in Asokoro. They are children of elites.”

He said, “We know we are in 2024, you are talking about somebody sounding warning to somebody at 2027. The new note that we want to see today is the north that seems to protect the interests of the common man not joining issues…

“Let’s talk about FAAN. For instance, how many people fly from Abuja if you compare the number of flights of domestic and international flights in Lagos? Besides, FAAN was brought to Abuja in just 2020 by Hadi Sirika. So this is just returning FAAN to where it belongs. So as far as we are concerned, we shouldn’t be joining very critical national issues.

“The essence of this relocation of some of these departments to Lagos is for efficiency. You cannot supervise banks; you cannot do some of these functions. According to records, just about 409 staff members of the CBN are moving to Lagos. But we’re not talking about other staff of about the same number that have been posted back to other branches of the bank in Abuja and other locations.”

https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/26/northern-elites-against-relocation-central-bank-faan-are-protecting-own-interest-their?

This threat should stop please. CBN is an independent body and the bank took the decision on its internal matter.

I will be so much disappointed, if Pres. Tinubu fall for this threat.

Truly, a new sheriff is in town.

The reason for the complaint is that this decision hit them much. Their daughters, sons and wives will be affected as their won't be able to sit at home to earn their salaries, allowances, bonus and promotion without going out of their homes again.

BennyDGreat:
Ahh Baba....this thing don pass social media criticism.

There must be a way to hound those people and physically put them in prison to suffer without privileges. If not, we will only shout on social media and those people will still walk free or at most get like 2/3 years in jail when they ought to use life in prison.

I concur, this is a better solution.

BennyDGreat:
Regulations that regulators are the first ones that break?

Aren't you following Emefiele's ordeal and all the things he did...

Even in those countries you mentioned, can anyone have the effrontery to take the kind of actions leaders take here....where someone will steal and will still laugh and get away with it because his friends are the judges, police offers and other enforcers of the law

We don't have strong institutions and some people are bigger than the regulations and laws. SIMPLE.

It is true some people could seem bigger than some regulators but they are not bigger than all of us equipped with the power of social media. We as citizens needs to play our part by saying something if we see something

BennyDGreat:
The biggest pressure on the naira is corruption that doesn't allow businesses to thrive.
How about ease of doing business?
Power?
Insecurity?
Dollar earnings?

All these ones about CBN not being able to regulate is not the basic issue.
They are trying to avoid the major issue...all these ones stem from that one issue CORRUPTION.

If CBN does all the regulation, if CORRUPTION still thrives, everything is a Pure waste of time!

No nation is immune of corruption, whether US, Vatican or Saudi Arabian. Regulations is what keep it at bay because regulations comes with penalties that deter people from unholy practices

MRSALT:
That's not true. Ask yourself where Fintech will get the naira to pay the recipient in Nigeria? They buy naira with dollars of course. The only issue is that they buy through the parallel markets instead of the Central Bank. Last year, an Indian company in Nigeria asked me to pay some dollars in their international account, while they deposit the naira equivalent in my account. If the deal was done, it would help to take the pressure off the demand for dollars and straighten the local currency.

Not getting to the Central Bank takes the currency out of CBN regulatory control and makes the market volatile and put naira under pressure. If you leave it to miscreants.

Thank you Oyedele. These fundamental facts are what will drive us to a better management of our economy not just vague figures. This is qualitative analysis not just quantitative analysis that those neocolonialsts are giving us.

Ay4christ2010:
You are a fake Christian

Pele o, original Christian!

Church seems to be becoming a place where bold criminals use for their operations, all in the name of Jesus to avoid prosecution.

Morbeta11:
Illegal miners that has CAC registered company.......

CAC registration is different from profession permit (license). They can register a company and don't have license to do the profession. Anything you don't have license to do and you are doing is illegal (in this case mining).

Zonefree:
That Oyo Governor is just disgracing himself!

Are you sure you are not the one disgracing yourself??

CAC registration is different from profession permit (license). They can register a company and don't have license to do the profession. Anything you don't have license to do and you are doing is illegal (in this case mining).

Our planning approach in Nigeria is reactive and not proactive.

The fault is from everyone and not government institutions alone.

E go better for Cardoso. Why would Headquarters alone have over 4k staff?

Fujiyama:
^^^


It would be good to know which multinational company...and whether they do animal sacrifices in their home countries.

I can assure you that if Bilfinger Berger made goat sacrifices before building new bridges (or fixing old ones) in Berlin or Dusseldorf, animal rights activists would make life difficult for the company. The average german would probably recoil in shock - it just isn't their way.

See, sacrifice is sacrifice whether you use animals, fruits or burn/kill/warp something with or without life. Not everything
is done to the camera, J or B Berger won't do such a thing to the face of camera in a country that has laws against such but that doesn't mean that they can't, couldn't or didn't do it.

ELsmile:
Wetin concern contruction and sacrifice

Sit down there. A multinational company in over 60 countries is currently building a big factory in Kwara and there was sacrifice made when the project started, some where buried down and construction was done it. I saw it live and not that I was told. It's so pathetic that oyinbo deceived us to forget our own but they are good at it. Africa mumu too much abeg.

Is this Putin or his clone?

I asked because Western news media told us Putin I dead at a time and that he is currently very sick.

yewit37486:
So "Bald AI" will explain the relevance of Pareto to the assertion YOU made (which you can't seem to explain)? Please be smart.

Yes, let me tell you that's one of the capabilities of Bard AI. Now that you have learnt the power of "Bard AI", go on it to learn the relevance of Pareto 80/20 as it concerns purchasing power to large number of population too. Happy to facilitate your learning. 🥂 Cheers!

yewit37486:
Just admit you don't know it, instead of trying to save face with google. Anyway, peace to you too.

I deliberately helped you to add "bald AI" to the search I suggested to you, so that you can promptly apply Pareto 80/20 rule to large population and get a practical figures as it concerns Nigeria. If you can't Google search or use Bald AI to learn this, then good luck is now added to the peace I already said.

Congratulations to FCCPC. This is one Agency that need to be commended for this feat. Unwholesome practices by foreign firms should not be tolerated. They need to play by the rules or leave (just as we see some of them leaving now)

yewit37486:
What is the relevance of Pareto's rule here? Besides, you are the one claiming high population is automatically beneficial.
1 Trillion naira daily on bet indeed, where are those figures from? Which sources?
On the other hand, the evidence on ground is that companies are leaving the country because the population's purchasing power has dropped. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Simple Google search/bard will help you with most of the questions you asked me here. Peace!

yewit37486:
It's not about population size. Having a very high young population that lacks tangible purchasing power is of no use to most companies.

Yimu! Have you heard of pareto's 80/20 rule before?? Besides why would you say there is no purchasing power when 65m Nigerian populace plays an average daily bet rate of $15 daily translating to almost a 1 trillion Naira daily bet play?

Any foreign company you see closing its business in Nigeria are just rent seekers that are here to make quick profit and easily repatriate money back to their base and not here to expand their business in Nigeria for a long term investment or are worried about penalties for their past or current misdeed due to stronger regulations the country is about to witness (just like FCCPC fined BAT $110m).

No serious minded business and company will leave a nation with very high young population who have a huge potential of consumption and are being turned to consumers in a consumerism economy like Nigeria.

The world we are today (globalization) needs serious regulations which I don't think our regulators in our country-Nigeria is serious about.

Evidence that we need to stop and think twice about some of the ideals that worldbank and the likes sold to us to improve our socioeconomic situation, instead we should seek homegrown solution by seeking conferences or referendum to our issues.

Have you got the information that you needed?? If no, I can help you with some information.

He was a fearless man and made his mark. May Aketi soul rest in peace (Amen).

Jesuschrist01:
University of Toronto...Obasanjo dealt with him.

Salisu Buhari is the University of Toronto guy and not Ghali Na'abba

lexy2014:
and you believe that he had 539 accounts. why is NNPC not being probed?

The news report before you and I is CBN and not NNPC sir, so no need to refer us to it now (even though I read it that Edin has called for it). 539 accounts may not be true but it so obvious Emeliefe ruined Nigeria treasury