CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele said yesterday that his tenure will end in June.

He was reacting to news that of his purported sack or being forced to leave office in two weeks.

The CBN boss said: “At least you can see me, I am doing my work, my tenure expires in June and at least, let’s continue.”

He noted that even if he “leaves at the end of his first tenure, the intervention programmes of the CBN has been on since 1978 and it has moved from one governor to another I am very optimistic that even if another governor comes, no right thinking person will abandon an initiative that is laudable and that is meant to create jobs for the good of our country.”

The CBN yesterday dismissed claims that Emefiele has been sacked.

Responding to enquiries from The Nation, the Director, Corporate Communications of the bank, Isaac Okorafor said: “The governor is in his office working.”

Another official of the bank said: “There is nothing like that, the governor is here, his tenure expires in June.”

An online medium had reported on Monday that the CBN governor has been sacked by the presidency and given two weeks to clear his table and “handover to an unnamed successor.”

President of National Cotton Association of Nigeria Mr. Anibe Achimugu at the textile stakeholders meeting in Abuja told the CBN governor that “we give God the glory that you are sitting here today. You have done well; we are praying that even with our own intervention, that you will do a lot more by the grace of God.”