Despite being sued, Akpabio repeats allegation that Emefiele left big hole in treasury
President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has urged Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu as he labours to fix what he described as “a foamy economy” left wobbling by the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, whom he alleged, had left a very big hole in the national treasury.
Akpabio maintained that Tinubu inherited a battered economy which he is currently trying to rally cash and deploying his ingenious know-how to salvage and navigate away from the stranglehold of sleaze and corruption to stay afloat.
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The Senate President made the plea at Ikot Ekpene Stadium over the weekend when his kinsmen from Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District hosted him and his National Assembly colleagues in a reception since he became the president of the Senate last year.
He recalled that his earlier remarks on Emefiele being the major culprit responsible for failure of the economy, had drawn the ire of the ex – CBN boss, who took him (Akpabio) to Court, but maintained that; “I still stand by my position,” despite the Court case. He doubled down that Emefiele left a big hole in the national treasury.
Expressing optimism and confidence in the economy bouncing back stronger, Akpabio assured that President Tinubu has the magic wand to retool the economy back on the trajectory of growth as he did as Governor under which Lagos became one of the most buoyant economies in Africa.
He stressed that with three former governors, Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, as President; Kashim Shettima, former Borno State Governor as Vice President, and himself, former Akwa Ibom State governor, their knowledge and ingenuity in politics and socio -economic governance would be aggregated and galvanized to rescue the country for the greater good of Nigerians.
