House keeps mum on president’s sack threat against CBN governor

Legislators in the National Assembly Thursday avoided offering comments on the sack threat by President

Goodluck Jonathan against the Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, for allegedly leaking the letter on the unremitted $49.8 billion oil revenue to the Federation Account to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Thisdaylive reports that efforts made by its correspondent to get the response of some principal officers

did not yield the desired result as those that were reached did not respond to calls placed to them. They also did not reply text messages sent to them.

An aide to a highly placed leader of the House to whom a message was sent seeking reaction on the issue replied after sometime by saying: “my brother I greet you.” Another aide to another principal officer kept silent.

President Jonathan had asked Sanusi to resign his appointment last Tuesday, while the latter who denied the allegation that he leaked his own letter to Obasanjo insisted that he can only be removed by two-thirds of the Senate members, This Day Newspaper reports.