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Report: Tinubu to withdraw Ruby Onwudiwe’s nomination to CBN board — over LP affiliation
President Bola Tinubu plans to withdraw the nomination of
Ruby Onwudiwe as board member of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
According to a report by Western Post, the decision follows
pressure mounted on the president by members of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) regarding Onwudiwe’s political affliation.
A post via her account on X, which reads “it was a landslide
victory for Labour Party at my polling unit Lekki polling unit” was said to
have incited the APC supporters who protested the nomination by Tinubu.
According to the report, flaunting her support for Labour
Party (LP), Peter Obi, its presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, and a
display of the result at her polling unit, was a basis for the party members
“to protest to senior government officials on the abnormality of the nomination
of an opposition figure to serve at the apex bank”.
