Emefiele Sues Investigator, Denies Opening 593 Foreign Accounts

A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has described the report of the Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu, which indicted him, as as satanic, baseless, defamatory and false.

Emefiele, in a statement on Sunday, said he had instructed his lawyers to immediately commence legal process to clear his name from the defamatory statements contained in the report.

One of his lawyers, Maxwell Okpara, who released the statement to Daily Trust, confirmed that it was issued by the embattled former CBN’s governor.

The Special Investigator, Jim Obazee, in the documents obtained by journalists, had, among other allegations, accused Emefiele, of opening 593 foreign bank accounts without approval of either President Muhammadu Buhari or CBN’s board of directors.

The investigator, in the report which was said to have been submitted to Tinubu last Wednesday, had said the accounts were in different banks in the United Kingdom, the United States and China, especially £543, 482,213 in fixed deposits in UK banks alone.

The investigator, according to the documents, had also claimed that the recent naira redesign was not expressly approved by former President Muhammadu Buhari.