- By Omolade Durojaye
The Deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has revealed some of the issues that took him to the Presidential Villa in a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Thursday.
Speaking shortly after emerging from the meeting with the President, Sanusi, who is also a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, said he discussed issues relating to the economy with the president adding that he had been a friend of the President since he was a banker when the President served as the Governor of Lagos state.
NPO Reported on Thursday that Sanusi was in a closed door meeting with Tinubu but added that the agenda of the meeting was unknown.
His meeting with the President also came at a time his successor at the CBN , Godwin Emefiele, had been placed under arrested and currently undergoing interrogations with alleged mind-boggling revelations of misdeeds under his watch.
Giving reasons for his visit to the President, Sanusi said he came to first congratulate Tinubu over his election adding that he also needed to appreciate the President for the steps taken so far in the area of the economy.
He said, “So, the first reason was to come and congratulate him formally and also I wear many caps. I wear the cap of an economist. So, I came to thank him for the steps he has taken to put this economy on course.
“As you know, many of the issues we have been talking about, the subsidy, the multiple exchange rate regime and so on. These are issues that I have personally been talking about for a long time and I am very happy that on his very first day, he addressed these issues.
“I feel so happy and it is important when the government does the right thing, it is for us to give them feedback. It is not always when they do the wrong things that you complain.”
Sanusi said Tinubu has started on a strong footing adding that “as far as the economy is concerned that we have to come and support and encourage that we have to continue on that path and be advocate for the policies he has pursued.”
He disclosed that he was at at the Villa because he is concerned about the farmers and herdsmen clashes adding that he also discussed steps that would need to be taken to begin to look at some of those issues.
” I came to appeal to him on the case of the 37 herdsmen who were bombed by the Air Force in Nassarawa State a few month ago which we wrote a letter to president Buhari on , and we have now written a reminder because it’s a matter that we don’t want to be swept under the carpet and the president has asked me to send him that letter and am sure that he would look into the matter.”
He said he also discussed poverty especially in Northern Nigeria adding that the question of out-of-school children, girl child education also featured.
He said, “We would continue again with the conversation to see how we can help with ideas how to address these issues because without education in the North and without educating the girl child we can’t get over the extreme poverty and insecurity on the north.”