Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele (R) with Christine Lagarde, then Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in Abuja, Nigeria. Image by IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe, January 6, 2016 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). The partisan decision of Nigeria’s central banker Godwin Emefiele to stand for election for the nations top job, the presidency, has rattled Africa’s most populous nation. The inappropriateness of Emefiele’s voyage into partisan politics as the central bank governor and his use of his office to promote his presidential ambition is unprecedented in Nigeria’s history. On …