Emefiele meets with Buhari at Villa

The embattled Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele on Thursday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidnential Villa.

Immediately he arrived, they went into a meeting.

The meeting that is currently going on is the second time since the apex bank boss returned to the country on January 12, 2023.

Emefiele was part of the delegation of the Arab Bank for Economic Development today which was led by its Director General, Dr Sidi Ould Tah.

Emefiele’s outings on Thursday was after several accusations leveled against him including corruption and terrorism financing which the Department of State Security has approached the Court to effect his arrest to no avail.
The DSS 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.

However, Emefiele filed an appeal against the FHC ruling saying that Justice Ekwo erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice when he made an order compelling his attendance in court for the $53 million debt.
Wednesday’s proceedings could not go on as planned when the matter was called, making the court to adjourn the case till March 20, 2023.