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Former Central Bank Governor (CBN), Charles Soludo has likened former President Goodluck Jonathan to, former Ugandusatimes.cc an dictator, General Idi-Amin Dada.

The former apex bank chief, said Goodluck Jonathan, ran the CBN, like a dictator.

In an interview in the current business edition of The Interview, the former CBN governor said the bank was “the ATM of the presidency,” under Jonathan.‎

“Imagine a scenario where a president can order the CBN to create an intervention fund for national stability and CBN l usanews.cc iterally ‘prints’ say, N3 trillion, and doles it out cash to the Presidency to prosecute an election campaign or for just about anything he fancies. It is a scary thought,” he was quoted as saying.

“We are going down a dangerous path that ruins the economy. I don’t know any other country where such is tolerated, except perhaps what I watched in a movie about Idi Amin and his governor o news f central bank.

“Recent revelations regarding the ‘arms-gate’ (short for the $2.1billion scandal involving former NSA Sambo Dasuki) and the apparent abuse of the CBN as ATM by the presidency should get reasonable people thinking.”

He said it was regrettable that in spite of the bank’s statutory independence, it continues to be a victim of high-wire politics, often “electrocuting” the bank’s leadership.

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