*Why He Prefers His Lackey To Succeed Him

Intrigues and conspiracies run parallel in the cutthroat race to succeed Godwin Emefiele, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria.

CBN Governor Godwin-Emefiele

While many juggernauts and political stakeholders are plotting and positioning to get the plum seat or install their own lackeys, as the case may be, the incumbent is reportedly grooming one of his trusted protégés, Ahmed Kuru, MD/CEO of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, to take over from him. Of course, Kuru comes well acquitted for the job.

Appointed in August 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari, he was the Group Managing Director of Enterprise Bank Limited after the nationalization of former Spring Bank Plc. He has over 30 years banking experience.

Prior to his illustrious banking sojourn, which spans Bank PHB Plc and Habib Nigeria Bank, Kuru had worked as a Budget Analyst with the Federal Ministry of Finance and was also once Executive Vice Chairman, Emeritus Capital Limited, a financial services firm, with specialty in international business development focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.

On the flipside however, Kuru, an MBA product of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, is regarded as an unrepentant hedonist. By every indices a wealthy man, the AMCON helmsman doesn’t dither when it comes to deploying his vast wealth to pleasurable activities of all hue. He is reputed to have a fine taste in those things that make life and living worthy and worthwhile.

Nothing is too pricey or beyond Kuru so far money can buy it. Sources in the corporation say the AMCON job has made him even far wealthier than he ever imagined.

All of these however pale into insignificance in the reckoning of Emefiele who would rather have a devil he knows to succeed him than an angel he doesn’t. The contention for the Delta State-born apex banker is that with Kuru in charge, some of his under-the-table dealings with bank CEOs would not be unearthed.

“The only reason Emefiele wants Kuru is that he needs someone to watch his back’, a source privy to the surreptitious machinations told The Capital, adding, “And he is going about it like a desperate state governor who is daring all odds in his ambition to install a successor.

Source: Thecapital.ng