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.

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.

“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”.
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.

“All I can say is that this not an objective for me.”

“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 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.’