A Group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Groups, CCSG, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Department of State Services, DSS, to order, to immediately stop its alleged witch-hunt against the Governor of the apex Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele.

The Group said that the allegation of Terrorism leveled against Emefiele was unwarranted, humiliating and unfounded, stressing that it Is an attack against him by aggrieved politicians for making monetary policies that stopped their plans to rig the 2023 elections.

Bassey Etuk, President of the Group made this statements at rally held at the gates of the Nigeria Television Authority, Area 11, in Garki Abuja, on Wednesday to condemned the witch hunt of the CBN Governor.

Etuk said that the proposed arrest of Emefiele, through a motion filed to the Federal High Court, would set Nigeria backward, rather than forward, and that Emefiele should be left alone to do the job that he had been mandated to do.

He called on the DSS not to allow politicians to influence its professional ethics, noting that the charges were an affront against the administration of President Buhari.

“Our attention was once again drawn to the recent motion ex parte brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja by men of the DSS wherein they sought relief to arrest and detain the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, based on trumped-up charges of financing terrorism, economic crime and crime of national security. This motion was surprisingly done without concrete evidence to prove the frivolous allegations against the workaholic CBN governor that the country cannot forget easily, based on his several transformed economic and monetary policies approved by President Buhari for implementation.

We are surprised to note the division that exists among top government officials of this regime. While the CBN governor was in faraway US on the entourage of President Buhari, another arm is seeking his arrest back home on trumped-up charges without the consent of the President. The questions that beg for answer is, who gave such directives. Is Mr. President aware of this allegation before moving in to effect arrest via a court order? On whose interest is the DSS really working?

“The civil society movement has great respect for the DG SSS, who we know as a fine gentleman, but we feel that the trumped-up charges are a product of unfounded petition, generated by unscrupulous politicians whose fraudulent activities had been cut short by the wonderful and brilliant policies of the central bank governor. We wonder why they left their main mandate and allowed the troubled political class to influence their professional ethics.

“The CBN governor has served diligently for seven years and the DSS (for) this period didn’t discover this until the recently introduced monetary policy, a policy that majorly affects most of our political class. This is an affront on the government of President Buhari, and we implore (the) Presidency to get to the root of the move aimed to further ridicule and bring to disrepute the office of the President.

“We as a group hereby reiterate our unalloyed support for President Muhammadu Buhari and the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, while urging the CBN governor to further the implementation of his policies, aimed at further combating inflation, while we warn the distractors and naysayers to allow him deliver on his mandate. The era of cash stuffing at home has gone and won’t come back again. We won’t be deterred to take further actions if this blackmail to remove him from office does not stop now”.

On Tuesday, Timi Frank, a Social Commentator, Activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has also urged President Buhari to call the Department of State Services, DSS, to order and quash the plot to intimidate, harass, humiliate and allegedly force the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele out of office.

The allegations according to Frank was rife following the move by a Group under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, to stage a protest against the CBN Governor, stressing the tDSS and other officials are conniving to bring this to reality.

He added that In order not to further intensify the already heightened security situation in the country at this critical time, the President should call all those masterminding this to order.

“I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the DSS and other conniving officials to order in order not to heighten the already heightened security situation in the country at this critical time,” he advised.