NAIRA POLICY: Buhari Is Working To Destroy APC That Elected Him – Ganduje Fires | READ DETAILS
The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of working to destroy the All Progressive Congress (APC), which elected him in 2015 and 2019 after he tried and failed severally.
Ganduje who is against the new naira policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), queried why Buhari approved the naira redesign policy in an electioneering year, noting that it affects all politicians.
The governor while speaking in Kano on Wednesday during a meeting with the Forum of Former Parliamentarians, North-West zone, said;
“Imagine someone has been contesting without winning elections until after a merger was formed. He won the election and spent four years, and re-contested again and he won, now that he is about to go, he is doing nothing but to destroy the party that elected him”.
“What is wrong with doing it after elections? Why hasn’t he done this in the past seven years? What is the meaning of all these? This CBN governor is not a politician; he doesn’t know anything about politics. How can a politician enjoy this policy? Imagine how as a leader you watch banks engulfed by fire, if not that the democracy has decayed, will that be possible?
“How is it possible when the World Bank said the policy is wrong, the IMF said it is wrong, other leaders said it is wrong, but you said you need seven days to think over it? The poor man selling vegetables will have his goods rotten (before the end of the thinking period), that is why I close down one supermarket for rejecting the old notes. The Supreme Court has said the old notes are still a legal tender, that is why any bank that refuses to collect, I will revoke their certificate and if they do that, they cannot work”.
According to Ganduje, the naira policy is a strategy to ensure that the 2023 general election does not hold, rather an interim government put in place.
He however expressed optimism that Bola Tinubu would change the policy if he becomes the next president of Nigeria.
“It was like this at the time of SDP with the Association of Better Nigeria; the CBN governor is the ABN of this dispensation.
“Therefore, this is even beyond not wanting someone to win the election; it is democracy itself they don’t want. They want to set up an interim government committee like that of (Ernest) Shonekan.
“Which credible politician do you think they can put to head such a committee? Except you just bring people that do not represent the masses but their families, those are the ones you can bring to form interim government,” Ganduje stated.
