The
Federal Government on Wednesday said the five-year tenure of Prof. Chukwuma
Soludo as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was a disaster to the
banking sector.
While
the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, described Soludo’s criticism
of the management of the economy under President Goodluck Jonathan as
“intellectual hara-kiri,” a former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli
Ezekwesili, called for a public debate by all parties on the actual state of
the economy.
Similarly,
a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum led by Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau
State described as illusionary and attention-seeking, Soludo’s recent article
on the state of the economy.
Soludo,
who was the CBN governor between May 2004 and May 2009, had on Monday written
an article in which he claimed that the Nigerian economy under Jonathan had
performed woefully.
While
reacting to the article, Okonjo-Iweala through a statement issued by her
Special Adviser on Communications, Mr. Paul Nwabuikwu, said not only was it
littered with abusive and unbecoming language, it showed Soludo, whom she
described as an “embittered loser in the Nigerian political space,” could get
so derailed by misquoting economic facts and maliciously turning statistics on
their head to justify a hatchet job.
However,
Ezekwesili said on her Twitter handle shortly after Okonjo-Iweala’s response
was made public, that the “nation and people seem to be on an accelerated race
to the bottom. So sad! Why would a statement from (the) government read like
that? Gosh!”
She
also demanded to know what had happened to the report of the forensic audit on
the reported missing $20bn from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as alleged
by Sanusi shortly before he was suspended from office by the President...
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