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President Bola Tinubu has opened up on his decision to suspend the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, from office.<\/p>\n

Recall that two weeks ago, Emefiele was suspended and subsequently arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) in whose custody he has been cooling his heels.<\/p>\n

President Tinubu, in far away Paris, told Nigerian community that the financial system under Emefiele was rotten.<\/p>\n

He spoke during an interactive session with Nigerians in he Diaspora, resident in France and neighbouring countries, on the side lines of the two-day financing climate pact summit, which ended in Paris on Friday.<\/p>\n

He also noted that many of those resident abroad were unable to send money to their relatives because of the multiple exchange rates, which he said had become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThen the financial system was rotten. Few people making bags of money and then you yourself, you stopped sending money home to our poor parents. Several windows. But that is gone now. It\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man is in the hands of the authorities. Something is being done about that. They will sort themselves out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The President, while describing fuel subsidy as a 40-year-old scam, disclosed that his aides \u2013 Dele Alake and Wale Edun left out subsidy removal from his inauguration speech, adding that he had to summon the courage to announce it when he mounted the podium to give his inaugural speech. He said fuel subsidy was making just a few smugglers rich.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cSome countries were bleeding us. Courage was missing. Sometimes I became an advocate of it. But God gave me the opportunity when I danced around, strategized with my team. We won the presidency. And the day I was declared winner, I fell almost sick with joy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe few friends that visited me were rejoicing. So I asked the question, you asked me to bring this trophy, this victory. What do you do with it?<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought it. I won. We must achieve with it. We must change Nigeria with it. And then Wale Edun and co, we started debating, putting my speech together without the question on subsidy. I got to the podium, I was possessed with courage and I said \u2018subsidy is gone.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey thought it was a joke of the century until I called NNPC. We are tired of feedings smugglers, making few people rich and subsidizing the next-door neighbour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met with the President of Benin Republic today. Everybody is equal now. We are friends. We are conjoined twins joined by the hips. How we will separate each other is with this fuel subsidy. Let us see whether we will survive or not but we are going to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Tinubu assured Nigerians that palliatives to cushion the effect of the removal of the subsidy were being worked out.<\/p>\n

On why he kicked against organised Labour embarking on protests, he said they could not be asking for palliative, salary increase, transportation and still want the old order to remain.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want money increase in palliative, transportation what are you protesting about? Are you sharing part of the subsidy? if you protest I will join you and protest against. And they stopped. No protest<\/p>\n

\u201cPalliative we will get but we have to save the money in order to embark on in palliative.\u201d<\/p>\n

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