President and founder of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, has said that the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi deserved his suspension by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking with Daily Sun in Lagos, Fasehun, who described Sanusi as an arrogant person, lambasted the CBN governor for allegedly mismanaging his position by arrogating so much power to himself and therefore running a parallel government.
According to him, Sanusi built a wall around himself and had no respect for anybody.
He said: “Sanusi has no respect for the office of the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria and carried on as if he is a law unto himself. The fact that he is a prince does not confer a special statue on him; he is not above the president. Even monarchs are still under the head of state.”
On Sanusi’s challenge of his removal in court, Fasehun said: “President Goodluck Jonathan is an executive president; he can hire and fire. Sanusi deserved what he got, he deserved his sack by the president. How can you be so arrogant to an executive president of a country like Nigeria?”
The OPC leader faulted Sanusi’s claim that his removal from office was not in order saying: “He (Sanusi) claimed that President Jonathan does not have the right to remove him; from which book did he read that? He who hires has the right to fire.
“The President has the right to suspend or remove him. If he (Sanusi) has the power to fight back, he can as well suspend the President.”
Fasehun described as mind-blowing, the report of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), which indicted Sanusi and urged the government to thoroughly investigate him and if found culpable, prosecute and jail him to serve as deterrent to others.
On Jonathan’s second term bid, Fasehun said the President deserves a second term given his unprecedented achievements within the short period that he has been in power.
Source: Sun
