PRESSURE continues to mount on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Godwin Emefiele to join the 2023 Presidential race as another group at the weekend called on him to contest.
Although the governor has not openly declared interest to contest, several groups have, in the past few weeks, been calling on him to join the race, saying the country was at a point technocrats are needed to lead the country.
Aside from actualising the South-East agenda, they opined that he has all it takes to salvage the present situation in the country.
Leading other groups in the call for Emefiele for president, a non-political organisation, The Charge 2023 said of all the intending aspirants, it is only Emefiele who has all that is required to lead the country.
The group submitted that its topmost priority as the nation inches towards the 2023 general election is to shop for a credible candidate which they have found in Emefiele.
In a statement titled The Charge 2023, issued weekend, the group argued that the next president should be an experienced entrepreneur and or a business leader, adding that the CBN governor falls in.
It cited the interventions Emefiele had made to get the economy going through fiscal and monetary policies that had helped to get Nigeria out of two recessions within the past five years.
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“As expected, there is already tension across the country. From the East to the West, North and South, Nigerians are beginning to feel the heat as the political gladiators go on the hustings, perfecting their art to play the game. These are men and women, who are well versed in political deception, intimidation, blackmail and are also experts in the art of violence, which they readily deploy to exact vengeance or force compliance to their will and desire.
“They are also adept at making promises they cannot keep or are not capable of supporting. They have been there from the First Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic and continued to rule the coast, even up to the present political dispensation,” he alleged.
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