Sanusi had written Jonathan in 2013 to warn over billions of dollars from oil sale not remitted to the federation account. He was later sacked as CBN governor but he became Emir of Kano while he was in court seeking that his suspension be declared unlawful.
Former CBN governor disclosed that ex-president did nothing until Olusegun Obasanjo wrote his own letter. Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers state, in January this year confirmed that he was the one that leaked the letter “because the corruption was simply too much”
“I was amused that leaking the letter is far more crime than leaking money. I went straight to the office of the principal secretary to the president, and I met him with a gentleman from Kano, who was foreign minister Ambassador Aminu Ali.
“I said to them, gentlemen, I’m coming to you because I just had a meeting with the president, and there were no witnesses, and the president had threatened me. “I repeated what happened and told them I am going to tell people close to me, if anything happens to me, it is the president.
“I don’t think I was really in fear of my life. Even if you don’t like someone – Jonathan was not the kind of person that would have someone killed.
He wasn’t that kind of leader.” He added that Ben Bruce told him they would jail him: “I remember Ben Murray Bruce, who is now a senator, coming to me to say that he had it on good authority that if I went to the senate with my documents, I would be removed, investigated and imprisoned. “Then I said, why would I be imprisoned, and he said, you know, you’ve worked in government.
I have worked in government, if people really want to find something on you, in the central bank, five years, they would come and look, they would find something. “I was like they would find it if I have done it. I mean they can plant something, but if haven’t done it, maybe somebody under me had done something that I wasn’t aware of.
“But in all my years at the central bank, to the best of my knowledge, I had done nothing that should put me in prison. However, I said to him, tell the president, from me, that if the punishment for going to the senate is prison, he doesn’t need to go through all of that, just ask him to tell me what prison he wants me to go to and for how many years, I’d drive myself there. “In August 2013, the president received the letter and did nothing.
A few weeks after that, the finance minister called to say, governor, can we do some reconciliation on oil revenue numbers? I said minister, I report to the president. “I have written to the president, if the president wants me to sit with you and do reconciliation, the president will tell me.
“After Obasanjo’s letter, all hell now broke loose. The letter was then leaked to online media, and it became public. That was when the president got angry and we then had to sit and do reconciliation.”
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