Emefiele Is Nigerian, Not Igbo, by Aliyu U. Tilde

It’s appalling to see some folks, principally from Emefiele’s Igbo tribe, attacking any critic who says something fallacious about Emefiele’s tenure or helps his arrest. One can simply discern this going by the feedback on @realFFK’s publish on the matter this morning.

I wish to make three factors right here:

Emefiele is Nigerian. He belongs to all of us. He’s ours. He was one of many longest serving Governors of our apex financial institution. That places him above the possession of his tribe. Please don’t demean him.

2. Emefiele is human. In his capability as Governor he should have carried out many proper issues and, after all, some few fallacious ones. Historical past shall be type to him on his proper actions, whereas the regulation will serve him the suitable measure of its meal for the few fallacious ones. Many public officers have confronted the identical destiny. So let’s settle down. I’d relatively pronounce his good at this second than assault the critic that mentions his wrongs.

3. Emefiele was unfortunate. He served below a tolerant boss that couldn’t shield him from the temptations of energy and cash. The restraining instructions of a frontrunner on his subordinates are equal to the saving arms of a mom for her child earlier than a hearth. Sadly, Buhari didn’t serve that motherly position because the President and plenty of of his officers will undergo the destiny of Emefiele because of this. Buhari’s philosophy on that is nonchalant: “Oho. After they come knocking, everybody will account for his motion.”

Because the suspended CBN governor faces his trial and because the former Accountant Common and others earlier than him did, allow us to all be on the facet of a Nigeria of accountability and rule of regulation and never on the facet of ethnicity or crime. When the AG was arrested, no northerner attacked any of his critics on Twitter. That’s the usual to satisfy concerning Emefiele.

Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

10 June 2023