CBN Will Make Sure The Election Goes Well and Smooth As Planned… Emiefele Assures INEC

Godwin Emiefele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has declared that the CBN will not be used to thwart the upcoming general elections.

The comments were made by Emefiele during a meeting with Mahmood Yakubu, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on February 7 at the CBN offices in Abuja.

While the majority of election-related service providers are paid electronically, Yakubu noted during the conference that there are still crucial sectors where cash payments are necessary, such as transportation and emergency situations.

CBN governor responded saying:

“This issue of paying logistics for people who are going to be transporting election materials to wards, certainly I give it to you that because we regard the INEC project as an urgent national assignment, it cannot fail.”

“The central bank will not allow itself either to be used or to be seen as an agent that frustrated positive outcome of the election.”

“If you require cash to pay some of your service providers, we will make it available to you.”

“I will make sure that we will not allow ourselves to be seen as an agent that frustrated a positive outcome of the election.”