Nobody saw the rockerfella in Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor until he clocked 60. When he did, the universe, cleft to the core, spread open to his fervent gaiety, and merriment and high commerce entangled like two Cuban dancers doing the tango in unprecedented quickstep.
The poplars of love and cheerfulness flowered in the household and exclusive business circuits of Nigeria’s number one bank chief according to SaharaReporters, as he hosted family, friends, and colleagues and treated, them to a good time at Montego Bay City, Jamaica, last weekend to celebrate his 60th birthday.
Who knew that beneath his fascination with the tedious iniquities of the steep percents Emefiele actually rocks? The CBN governor tickled high society from the base to the rafters, like a Victorian Lord, tickling the fancy of a fawning nobility.
There is no gainsaying commerce mingled with pleasure as he shuffled into his sixth decade in the company of his loved ones. Echoes of the classy shindig reverberate through the nooks and crannies of the South American country even as you read.
Predictably, the shindig attracted the creme of Nigeria’s business and political elites, who converged to celebrate Emefiele and court his good graces. Like him or hate him, Emefiele has done really well for himself.
He has served two presidents and weathered the political high jinks of public office; nobody thought he would prevail over successive elaborate schemes to get him sacked but he did thus attesting to his strengths as a sapient administrator and politician.
Irrespective of the negative vibes persistently hurled in his path by his most virulent critics, Emefiele keeps forging ahead. Like a bulldozer, he keeps crushing every boulder thrown in his path; many corrupt bank chiefs, who sought his downfall have sad stories to tell. Many of them suffered irreparable defeat and got sacked from their exalted offices.
SOURCE: TheCapital.ng