25th February, 2014
Security aides attached to the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, have been withdrawn.
P.M.NEWS can authoritatively disclose that the State Security Service (SSS) personnel attached to the embattled former CBN governor have been withdrawn on the orders of the Presidency.
A close aide of Sanusi who confirmed this, said the officials were withdrawn Monday.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday during his media chat declared that Sanusi remained the CBN governor until the conclusion of investigation into allegations of financial recklessness levelled against him.
The president also told his viewers and listeners that he is constitutionally empowered to suspend the CBN governor.
Sanusi was suspended as the CBN governor last Thursday while attending a meeting of African Central Bank Governors in Niamey, Niger Republic.
He immediately returned home and was quizzed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where his travel documents were seized by officials of SSS.
The suspended CBN governor has vowed to challenge his suspension in court, stressing that the president cannot unilaterally suspend him without getting the approval of the Senate.
Sanusi ran into trouble with the Jonathan administration when he made disclosures of financial sleaze in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
In his recent disclosure to the Senate committee looking into the financial activities of NNPC, Sanusi disclosed that the national oil corporation failed to remit $20 billion oil revenue into the federation account and called for a scrutiny of NNPC’s financial transactions.