Group urges Buhari to cancel CBN deputy govs’ appointments

By Baba Yusuf

Abuja

A north-based socio-political group, Northern Awareness for Equity and Justice, has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency cancel the resent appointments of some persons as deputy governors of the Central Bank; they (appointees) lack the merit and competency the positions demand.
The group which frowned upon what they called “political interference from some highly connected Nigerians in the appointment of a sensitive and high-demanding position as deputy governor of the country’s apex bank,” said if not reversed by President Buhari would place the country at a negative stand amongst the major economies and international monetary agencies of the world.
In a press statement issued yesterday Dr. Usman Danfuntua and Alhaji Danladi Kawo, president and secretary of the association, respectively, the group maintained that some of the new appointees were “unfit, inexperienced and unknown for the new positions, especially the one representing the North-central zone.”
The group said competency and merit should not be sacrificed on the altar of god-father influence which might have played a significant role in the appointments, advising that there were more competent and qualified persons, especially from the North-central zone, that would have been appointed to represent the zone.
President Buhari had recently appointed Aishah Ahmad and four others to make up the number of members of the MPC stipulated in the CBN Act.
The new MPC appointees included Adeola Adenikinju, Robert Asogwa, Asheikh Maidugu, and Aliyu Sanusi.

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