A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has described the report of the Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu, which indicted him, as as satanic, baseless, defamatory and false.
Emefiele, in a statement on Sunday, said he had instructed his lawyers to immediately commence legal process to clear his name from the defamatory statements contained in the report.
The Special Investigator, Jim Obazee, in the documents obtained by journalists, had, among other allegations, accused Emefiele, of opening 593 foreign bank accounts without approval of either President Muhammadu Buhari or CBN’s board of directors.
But reacting on Sunday, Emefiele stated that his attention was drawn to the publications after he was released on Friday from the Kuje Correctional Centre where he had been detained for 34 days over alleged N1.5bn procurement fraud.
The erstwhile CBN governor said he handed over Buhari’s approval to Obazee during the process of his investigation in the presence of senior CBN officials and his (investigator’s) team.
