{"id":1244,"date":"2023-11-09T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tinubu-appointed-cbn-gov-cardoso-with-patch-patch-cv-ex-sgf-babachir-lawal-alleges\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:07:20","slug":"tinubu-appointed-cbn-gov-cardoso-with-patch-patch-cv-ex-sgf-babachir-lawal-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tinubu-appointed-cbn-gov-cardoso-with-patch-patch-cv-ex-sgf-babachir-lawal-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu appointed CBN gov, Cardoso with \u2018patch-patch CV\u2019 \u2013 Ex-SGF Babachir Lawal alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has accused President Bola Tinubu of appointing the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Yemi Cardoso with a patched-up curriculum vitae.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal said Tinubu appointed Cardoso with such a CV because he was the Commissioner of Planning in Lagos State when the president was governor.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Arise TV, the former SGF stressed that Lagos State was very small when compared to the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that Cardoso was not qualified to occupy the office of the CBN governor.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lawal: \u201cAs to his Central Bank Governor, in my response to APC (All Progressives Congress) when they decided to take me on, I mentioned that the President had a Central Bank Governor with \u2018patch-patch\u2019 CV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said \u2018patch-patch\u2019 CV because he was the commissioner of planning in Lagos State, a very small state out of the 36 states we have. It is a big economy but you cannot say he has enough experience to be in that position as the Central Bank governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also went on to say that he was a chairman of a bank with 13 branches, and that doesn\u2019t give him sufficient exposure \u2013 a bank with 13 branches. I mentioned that they are all located around Lagos with two branches in Lagos, Warri, Benin City, and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu appointed CBN gov, Cardoso with \u2018patch-patch CV\u2019 \u2013 Ex-SGF Babachir Lawal alleges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has accused President Bola Tinubu of appointing the Central&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,466],"tags":[2454,8,1172,2458,2456,2453,63,2457,2455,290,422,180,26,364],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tinubu","tag-patch-patch","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-alleges","tag-appointed","tag-babachir","tag-cardoso","tag-cbn","tag-cv","tag-ex-sgf","tag-gov","tag-lawal","tag-news","tag-tinubu","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}