Resign If You Cannot Work With Goodluck,Jang Tells Sanusi

The factional Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, who is also the Governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, has called on the Central Bank Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, to moderate his utterances concerning stories making the rounds that President Goodluck Jonathan has asked for his resignation.

 

In a statement released in Abuja by his faction’s Media Office, which was signed by Mr. Kassim Yakubu, Jang reminded the CBN governor that he was not bigger than the Nigerian government that appointed him.

Jang added that if trust had eroded between him and Mr. President, it was only honourable for him to give way to someone that could work with the government.

He said, “If the relationship between the CBN Governor and President Jonathan has become frosty, it is only logical that the President becomes uncomfortable knowing how sensitive the Central Bank is to his transformation agenda.

”Moreover, we elected the President to run the country and so we cannot be held hostage by an appointee of government if it is true that Mr. President has asked for the resignation of the CBN Governor.”

Jang further said Nigerians put their trust in President Jonathan to pilot the affairs of the nation when they voted him in as President and therefore he should be allowed the latitude to run his government without unnecessary distractions especially from appointees who serve at the pleasure of the Federal Government and Mr. President.

He called on Nigerians to continue to watch out for those usual beneficiaries of conflict who would seek to make an issue out of this by bending the facts to suit their mischievous agenda.