President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall that Emefiele recently resumed duty after he returned from his annual leave abroad. It is his second meeting with the President in the year.
Although the details of the meeting remained unknown, the meeting is the second between the President and the CBN Governor on the same day.
Earlier, Emefiele was part of the audience President Buhari granted the Arab Bank for Economic Development team, at the Villa.
Emefiele, who returned to the country on January 12 after his annual leave, had been in the eye of the storm over alleged corruption and involvement in terrorism financing, reportedly leading to a series of attempts by security officials to arrest him.
Weeks earlier, the Department of State Service (DSS) was said to have sought a court order to arrest him, but the request was rejected by the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja.
The DSS had reportedly asked the court to order the arrest of the CBN Governor over alleged “acts of financing terrorism, fraudulent activities and economic crimes of national security dimension.
On October 20, 2022, Justice Inyang Ekwo, sitting in the Federal High Court in Abuja summoned Emefiele over the $53m judgment debt arising from the Paris Club refund.
The court ordered him to appear on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, as the hearing date.
