Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned a recent call for the sack of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele.

Oshiomhole said those behind the call are drunkards trying to sabotage the Nigerian economy.

The governor disclosed this in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okogie, to finalise plans on the take-off of Edo University in Iyamo.

He said the CBN has ended the nefarious career of those benefiting from an illegal capital market and other anti-growth rackets. “The truth of the matter is that we have a new Federal Government that has won election on the basis of a mantra of change and there are all kinds of people who have made money from this economy without contributing anything; people who make money by just playing on the exchange rates and commercial papers. It is these speculators that want the CBN Governor to be sacked,” Oshiomhole said.

The governor further stated that the CBN under the current dispensation has blocked many drain pipes in the economy, by safeguarding the naira from decline. He noted that were it not for the quick interventions of the nation’s apex bank, the economy would have run into troubled waters with the naira getting badly hurt and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore the calls.

“The CBN Governor has been firm in saying that we cannot open up the doors to all kinds of import of toothpicks, tomato paste and all sorts of things. You remember the publication where about 41 items were denied access to official forex? Now, these people, who have been feeding fat on our common patrimony, manipulating the exchange rate, moving monies across boundaries by pressing buttons and taking advantage of electronic wire transfers; these speculators are the once behind this campaign,” Oshiomhole stated.

•Excerpted from a Daily Sun report. File photo shows Governor Oshiomhole fielding questions from newsmen.

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