* Says Count Me Out of 2023 Presidency
By Joy Osayame (Politics Correspondent)
Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and dethroned Emir of Kano, Mallam Lamido Muhammed Sanusi, hinted at the weekend that he will be proceeding to the Oxford University in the United Kingdom in October as a visiting fellow at the institution’s Department of African Studies. Sanusi also said that he will not be available for the 2023 presidential race as being rumored, saying he has no interest in politics, including running for political office.
The former Kano state monarch said in an interview with Arise News Television, that: “People have been talking to me about politics when I was in the CBN. I have never had an interest in partisan politics. The nature of my family is that we consider ourselves the leaders of the poorer people and you know politics can be very divisive. All I can say is that this not an objective thing for me.”
According to Sanusi, service to the nation does not have to be through only politics. He recalled how he “started off as an academic and after just two years, I completed my masters and went into banking for some reasons. I have been a banker, a regulator, an emir. I can’t see the future, so I will take life as it goes. I am in no hurry. I see my life as a life of service but I just don’t think that public service is limited to elected office, and any opportunity I have to serve, I will take as long as it is a role I think I am capable of delivering. But I have no immediate plans to go into politics.”
While at Oxford, Sanusi plans to write three books, one of which will be ‘Sharia Society and Identity’. The second of the planned series will focus on the Central Bank’s response to global financial crisis and the third on the impact of certain interpretations of Muslim family law and cultural practices on the underdevelopment of Northern Nigeria. NNL.
