I have grown up to know CBN governors as well-respected people in the society in and out of office. Many years ago, I could not have imagined a CBN governor in current Emefiele’s situation. And Emefiele attracts sympathy from very few people. How did this gentle looking man get himself into this situation? It is not as if he was plucked from nowhere and planted in such an exalted position. This is a man who had risen to become the chief executive of a top-rated bank in Nigeria. One would have thought such a move would be as natural as pounded yam with egusi soup. But somehow, he failed to achieve consonance with those he was meant to serve. Is it that he was way ahead of his time on the job, and we couldn’t understand his actions? Or that he simply lost his mind. We may never know. I wonder what Jim Ovia, who wrote in his book that he was happy and proud when Emefiele was appointed CBN governor, would be thinking now
