I Have Never Had An Interest In Partisan Politics: Sanusi Lamido

The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor will be in the United Kingdom from October as a visiting fellow at the Oxford University institution’s African Studies Department.<br /><br />As far as he's concerned, service to the nation does not have to be through only politics and 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.<br /><br />“People have been talking to me about politics when I was in the CBN. I have never had an interest in partisan politics,” he said in an Arise TV interview”.<br />He added: “The nature of my family is that we consider ourselves the leaders of the poorer people and you know politics can be very divisive.<br /><br />“All I can say is that this not an objective for me.”<br /><br />“I can’t see the future, so I will take life as it goes.<br /><br />“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.”<br /><br />While at Oxford, Sanusi aims to write three books, one of which will be Central Bank Response to Global Financial Crisis: A Case Study of the Central Bank of Nigeria 2009-2013.’