BY ABBANOBI – EKU ONYEKA
ABUJA
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A constitutional lawyer and the principal partner of Friends Chambers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Prince Orji Nwafor – Orizu has advised President Muhammad Buhari to call the Department of State Services (DSS) officers to stop harassing the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele.
It has been in the news for some time that the DSS has over the time been trying to arrest and drag Emefiele to court to charge him for sponsoring terrorism, among others. And some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) and others had asked the DSS to stay clear of the governor of the apex bank
This legal icon spoke to selected journalists recently in his chamber in the FCT.
Baring his mind on the DSS and Emefiele saga, Nwafor – Orizu had this to say: “All I have to say is that everything about it, as far as I am concerned, is anarchy, because they have tried court action and they didn’t go through. I have read that some SANs and other Nigerians are calling and appealing to the Attorney General of Nigeria (AGF) to obey the court order which is in order.
“What the SANs and others are saying in the write-up is that the issue be redirected to Mr. President. The DSS officers are employees of Mr. President. In fact, the DSS is called the State House Annex, and that is to say, it is a part of the office of the president. And the DSS can’t have a parallel agenda on an issue. It isn’t a question of Mr. President providing security for Emefiele, but a question of him making a categorical and official statement, stopping the DSS from harassing Emefiele in the national interest.
Still beckoning Mr. President to come up with an official statement on the whole issue, this Nnewi in Anambra – born prince, however, insisted that he hasn’t seen an offense in the restructuring of the CBN ordered by President, which the DSS has turned into sponsoring of terrorism which the DSS has been attempting to arrest and charge the CBN governor for. Defending that Emefiele was ordered by his boss, Mr. President, to effect changes in the country’s currency, he alleged that the fact that it didn’t favor the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, they had to frame up the issue of financing terrorism. “For the fact that the change effected in the currency didn’t favor Tinubu because time is against them, then it becomes terrorism, he said.
Accusing the APC of using all means to truncate the upcoming election, Orji Nwafor – Orizu said Mr. President, being a resolute man, had refused to yield to their plans.
“Because the change effected in the currency didn’t favor Tinubu, the changes then became terrorism. There is no way the APC hasn’t tried to truncate the upcoming elections, but Mr. President, a resolute man, is stronger than them. Somebody asked for the murder of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman and that of Emefiele because of the changes effected in the money and the process of the election, respectively, and the president said no,” he stated.
When asked, he said he didn’t know who had been sponsoring all the evil intensions, but was quick to say that whoever that has been sponsoring the evil intentions may not be far from Tinubu or the APC.
Noting that there are many Nigerians with billions of Naira, they don’t know how to go about due to the changes effected in the currency by order of the president to the CBN. The constitutional lawyer, however, advised the DSS and Emefiele to continue to obey Mr. President, adding any of them who couldn’t should just resign.