The South-West Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 (SWAGA’23) has implored President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps to address the suffering of Nigerians as a result of the Naira redesigning by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

It also urged the President to allow the old and new naira notes to co-exist as a means of easing the current suffering of Nigerians until May 2023 after the conduct of the general elections.

President Buhari had last week blamed banks for the harrowing experiences of Nigerians but asked Nigerians to give him seven days to resolve the crisis.

But speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Otunba Bosun Oladele SWAGA’s National Secretary said the seven days proposed by the president may be too long as Nigerians are already protesting the hardship caused by the scarcity of the naira in parts of the country.

“The president should take an urgent decision now. Also, the old currency should co-exist with the new ones until May or June 2023 just like the National Assembly has advised. This will allow for a seamless transition from the old currency to the new ones” he said.

When asked if the cash crunch may negatively affect the conduct of the general elections, the SWAGA scribe said “The role of money in politics and campaign cannot be far-fetched. You need to pay your agents who are manning every polling unit”.

“You need to pay the people that will work for the party. You need to pay the transporters who will move people from the villages to polling units. If you don’t have money or petrol, it becomes a huge problem, if not impossible for us to have elections in those areas”.

“So, it is very important that anything that will scuttle this election and will lead to low turn-out of voters or engineer the contraption of the so-called Interim National Government, every such thing must be avoided by the federal government. Let’s have the election first”.

“I have listened to situations where they said the Naira redesigning was done to prevent politicians from corrupting the process by inducing voters with money.

“I believe that will not be possible if the security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission do their jobs. The Electoral Offences Laws and Acts can also take care of vote buying and other financial inducements on election day”.

“Policing electoral processes is a major task for security agencies and that is why each polling units have a deployment of adequate security agents. The government cannot really police the process from the executive arm”.

“The security agencies must be allowed to do their job regarding that. But whatever is going to affect the election negatively must be avoided in the interest of the well-being of the country”.
https://independent.ng/naira-redesign-swaga-wants-old-new-notes-to-co-exist-until-after-elections/

Criminal begat criminal.
Vote wisely by not voting anything APC.

Swaga shit!

Bullion van club!

Feb 10th is sacrosanct!

Them go tire.

Nigerians are really suffering as a result of the policy

They want to allow vote buying..

No way

The kind of guts this tifnubu urchins have amazes me, the other day it is mc oluomo the tout general of Nigeria asking inec to give him sensitive materials to transport and now this, what do this guy's take us for?

Do transfer na.. abi kilode

among all political parties, only APC is crying about the naira thing

Qtrpst4:
The kind of guts this tifnubu urchins have amazes me, the other day it is mc oluomo the tout general of Nigeria asking inec to give him sensitive materials to transport and now this, what do this guy's take us for?

As long as the acronym swaga has Tinubu's name in it then it is a false cry. These guys are evil people who use every opportunity they can get to do evil things.

Buhari shouldn't for once consider listening to anything that comes from Asiwaju's camp or even Abubakar for that matter.

No way

We won't let Thiefnubuu rig election anymore

APC - Association of Progressive Criminals. The only requirement for you to join apc is to be criminally minded.

Because the money in the bullion vans will be a waste after Feb. 10

nairavsdollars:
among all political parties, only APC is crying about the naira thing

APC - Association of Progressive Criminals. The only requirement for you to join apc is to be criminally minded. They are a bunch of idiots.

Another Naira Redesign thread by Thiefnubuu zombies and agbado Idiats...

I thought they said thiefnubuu beat BUHARI in his game?? ..useless myopic Idiats..without brains..

FeB 10..is a done deal..no going back..spits

Na lie we no gree, old notes stop been a legal tender as from 10th. You want Thiefnu and Atifku to buy Nigeria with the old notes?

Good idea, it will ease suffering of the masses

It's affecting the masses more

galaxy2020:
Na lie we no gree, old notes stop been a legal tender as from 10th. You want Thiefnu and Atifku to buy Nigeria with the old notes?