“The power Tinubu has over Emefiele is very limited” _ Harvey Specter

Edmonton Harvey Specter had  tweeted this on Friday night after the suspension of Godwin Emefiele as CBN governor by President Bola Tinubu: “Can the President suspend the CBN Governor?

‘In Sanusi Lamido v. President & Ors where I was part of Counsel that represented the President and which was decided at the FHC Abuja, it was held that ‘While the President cannot remove the Governor, he can exercise some form of disciplinary control which includes suspension over him’.

The matter was not appealed.”Even though I was on the ‘winning’ side, I wanted Sanusi Lamido to appeal the Judgement so they could be a declaration on the issue once and for all by the Supreme Court. Was disappointed when he didn’t,” he added.

Sanusi became emir of Kano while the legal battle raged and he eventually terminated his case on July 3, 2014.The governor can only be removed by two-thirds majority of the senate, according to the CBN Act 2007, but it silent on suspension.

Sanusi’s lawyers, Kola Awodein and Abubakar Mahmoud, argued that he was not an employee of the federal government but that of the board of the CBN and could not be disciplined by the president.