Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has denied rumors that he will run for President of Nigeria in the 2023 general elections.
A Delta State High Court in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State, has issued an order prohibiting the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from preventing the bank’s governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, from contesting the 2023 Presidential election.
Emefiele is running for president in the 2023 elections on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, or APC.
In the suit with the number HCR/38/2022, the applicant, Nkwo Augustine Eddiego, sought an interpretation and supremacy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution over the provision of Section 9 of the CBN Act, 2007 as amended.
Justice D. C Maidoh granted the order, noting that the applicant deposed to an affidavit of urgency and also followed Court Rule 39.
He determined that the application has merit at this time, pending the hearing and decision on the Motion on Notice.
“In the circumstances, and in accordance with order 39 rule 3 of our rules,” he said, adjourning the hearing on the Motion on Notice to May 25, 2022.
Section 9 of the CBN Act prohibits the governor and deputy governor of the central bank from running for political office.
