Pointers that difficult times may await the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, in post-Buhari administration’s years, emerged on Monday when the Governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Bello Matawalle asked President Buhari to cancel a purported study leave approval already granted to the CBN governor.

Matawalle is one of the three governors who took Buhari’s government over the Naira swap policy and secured a reversal from the Supreme Court. The othe two governors are El-Rufai of Kaduna state and Yahaya Bello of Kogi state.

In an emotion-laden letter to the President, Governor Matawalle eulogised the President saying that he has demonstrated that he is a patriot, democrat and a man of impeccable integrity and character. He said Buhari has also demonstrated good faith by showing his readiness for a seamless transfer of power to the incoming administration.

President Buhari and his wife Aisha Buhari have shown good faith and shown they want a seamless orderly and peaceful transfer of power to the incoming administration,” Matawalle said.

“They are eager to ensure that the new regime takes off smoothly and speedily and in a manner devoid of any encumbrance in the interest of our country.This is the right thing to do and I commend President Buhari and his wife for their statesmanly conduct.

“However, other officers in the government have acted in a different manner. They are behaving as if they want to put spanners in the work for the incoming regime.

“President Buhari should not allow this. He should frown at any attempt by any person seeking to damage the good job he has done.

“I want, here and now, to urge President Buhari to not approve any study leave or whatever kind of leave for any officer critical to the take-off of the incoming administration of Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

One of such persons that has been speculated in the media to have sought a study leave is Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele.

“If the leave has been approved, as reported in the media, the President should cancel it in the interest of peaceful transfer of power, accountability and good governance.”

CBN Governor Emefiele superintended over the management of the country’s financial and monetary systems. He is the one who initiated and implemented the recent disastrous Naira swap policy, the Naira confiscation program, which put Nigerians through untold woes and trauma and set our economy backwards.

“Two of my brother-governors and I took the Federal Government to court over this ill-advised policy and fought resolutely until we got a respite for our people from Emefiele and company.

“This same Emefiele now wants to proceed on study leave when he has some 10 months left of his tenure apparently in a bid to evade rendering accounts. This is unacceptable. President Buhari should not countenance this. Emefiele must stay at his job to give full accounts of all that transpired under his watch to the incoming administration.

“He must answer all the questions the new regime may have for him particularly when he still has some months left of his tenure” Gov. Bello Matawalle wrote in an appeal to President Buhari.

Governor Matawalle lost his bid for a second term in office as he was defeated by the candidate of the PDP.

The CBN Governor still has about eight months in office to complete his second term of five years as CBN governor. There have been speculations that his appointment may be one of the early ones to be terminated by the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu after his swearing-in as President.