A former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Muhammad Sanusi II, said he was ready to end up in jail after he was sacked as the head of the apex bank by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Sanusi who was the 14th Emir of Kano State made the disclosure on Sunday night during a dinner held to commemorate his 60th birthday.

The 60-year-old revealed that he had personally asked the president to tell him the prison he would be sent to with the intentions that he would turn himself in, by driving there.

He said, “Apart from death in human history man has not designed any punishment for the fellow man that is worse than prison and isolation. What is the greatest threat anyone can do to me? If you tell me you will jail me, I have been there. That is the worse. or if you kill me, we will all die anyway.

“So those of you that are afraid that they will send the police after me or if I go to prison I will die, someone who has been there!

“When I had my problem in the Central Bank and there were all these noises, I said tell the President that he doesn’t need to go through all those.

“He should just tell me that he is sending such and such a prison for a particular number of years, I will drive myself, go to the prison, I will register, I will stay for that number of years, I will come out and continue doing what I am doing now.

“The reality is that two things destroyed this country. Fear and greed. And if we can all conquer those, we should be able to make this country a great one that it should be.”

“I have been fortunate, I have seen the highs and lows of life and I truly have so much to be thankful for. At age of 60, I won’t say I have achieved but the favours that have been bestowed upon me are huge.

“I was the Chief Risk Officer of First Bank and the only Northern Nigerian Chief Executive Officer of First Bank in over 125 years, then Governor of CBN and Emir and now the Khalifa and the third holder of this title. I have nothing but gratitude to offer.

“With all these privileges come responsibilities and when we seat here as elite, we must remember those who are hungry, those who are sick, malnourished, those out of school, and if we don’t spend every moment of our lives thinking how can we give them a little bit of what we have been blessed with, then we have a problem.

“These are the kind of passion that should drive us as a country.”