Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s administration does not know what crime to charge former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele with.
Lifestyle Nigeria reports that Akpabio said this while speaking in a Update of a church programme posted by Channels Television on its X handle on Sunday…..CONTINUE READING
Akpabio attributed the current economic hardship and hunger in Nigeria to the actions and policies implemented during Emefiele’s tenure at the apex bank.
The former Akwa Ibom Governor emphasised that their administration inherited a collapsed economy and has been working to address the challenges.
He acknowledged the severe economic situation in the country and called for patience from Nigerians, stating that solving the problems accumulated over 60 years cannot be done in six months.
He said, “The kind of debts and the kind of economic mess that we are in, a lot of people did not understand. I remember President Obama saying you cannot know Washington until you get to Washington, so by the time we went in to look at the economic situation of the country, it was terrible.
“So you know the former governor of Central Bank, we don’t even know what to charge him with.
“But I know that the hunger in the land is because of the kind of policies and actions that they took.