The presidency has cautioned bank executives indicted by the special investigative team set up to investigate the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) activities under its former governor, Godwin Emefiele.
It was gathered that some bank executives and business tycoon have started making “frantic moves to reach out to top aides of the president in the Villa to find a soft landing for them.”
Some industry players, had reportedly met with Tinubu to give them a soft landing in the special investigation headed by Jim Obaze.
The panel headed by Obaze is getting ready to submit its interim report to President Bola Tinubu in the coming days.
Presidential sources say Emefiele had revealed some of the bank chiefs as either beneficiaries of the sleaze funds or accessories who facilitated the disbursement of the monies under investigation.
It was gathered as disclosed by one of sources that some of the banks’ chiefs, who benefitted from the Anchor Borrowers programme and business moguls involved in dollar round-tripping, had earlier trailed the President to Paris, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia when he visited.
The source said the bank chiefs and top businessmen went to see the President in a last minute move to stop the Obaze-led team from including them among those to be call interrogation and prosecution.
“The President washed his hands off the case because it is a matter solely for the special investigator and his team and he is unlikely to interfere. They should be ready to defend their actions if called upon,” a source close to the president said.
