Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has alleged that the naira redesign policy of President Muhammadu Buhari is aimed at truncating Nigeria’s democracy.

Ganduje spoke late Wednesday in Kano when he met with the Forum of Former Parliamentarians, North-West zone, that visited to intimate him of their resolve to support the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Kano State is one of the states before the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the policy. Ganduje’s allegation came in the wake of the hardship Nigerians are passing through in accessing the new N200, N500 and N1, 000 notes.

President Buhari had in his address to Nigerians on Thursday said the naira swap was meant to tame inflation and other infractions. The Kano governor is previously not known for openly criticising President Buhari as he had been one of the people that worked hard to sell the president to the electorate.

Ganduje said it was unfortunate that despite the collective efforts made by the APC to ensure Buhari’s election victories in 2015 and 2019 after several losses, the president had resolved to pay the party and those that supported him back by destroying the party that brought him to power.

He 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,” Ganduje said.

On the policy, Ganduje asked why the president and CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele did not think of the policy seven years ago and why it had to be on the eve of an election.

“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”, he said.

Ganduje also stated that Tinubu would revoke the policy after the election. He said the policy was not that of the ruling party but they are aware this is part of the plot to ensure elections do not hold, saying the development is similar to how MKO Abiola was denied of being president.

“It was like this at the time of SDP with the Association of Better Nigeria (ABN); 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,” he said, adding that these people will be puppeteer to ensure only the candidate of their choice emerges victorious.

On his part, the convener of the former parliamentarian forum, Alhaji Adamu Panda, said the forum agreed that the next president should be someone who believes in the philosophy of building the people in building the nation.

He said they believed that the unwritten agreement between the North and the South must be respected and keeping the country stable and united must therefore be of importance to all.

“Support for power-shift is therefore necessary for us,” he said.

The forum also said the North backing any other presidential candidate aside from Tinubu could jeopardise the budding relationship between the North and the South, which could see the South West seek alliances elsewhere.

Efforts to get the reaction of the presidency on what Ganduje said were not successful at the time of going to press.

President Buhari yesterday in his national broadcast declared that old N500 and N1000 notes were no longer legal tender, contrary to the Supreme Court’s injunction of February 8 restraining the CBN and federal government from phasing out the old notes by February.

The apex bank had redesigned N200, N500 and N1000 notes late last year and set a deadline of January 31 for the use of old naira notes. Buhari directed Nigerians to swap the affected currencies at the CBN and other designated places.

But after intense pressure, the CBN extended the deadline to February 10.

Some governors had filed a suit at the Supreme Court two days to the deadline and the court restrained the CBN from banning the use of the old naira notes from February 10, 2023, but Emefiele had said there was no need for the deadline to be shifted.

In his broadcast, Buhari acknowledged the hardship Nigerians are going through as a result of the naira redesign policy, saying he had directed the CBN to make new notes available.

He extended the validity of only old N200 notes to circulate as legal tender with the new N200, N500, and N1000 banknotes for 60 days from February 10, 2023 to April 10 2023.

https://dailytrust.com/naira-redesign-buhari-out-to-truncate-democracy-ganduje/

This seems to be the relationship now between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is now a fight between the ruling APC and the presidency-seeking APC.

Either way, it is the party at war with itself over its policy, which seems to have hit its members very badly. Get me right, the old and new naira swap policy is a policy of the APC government that has inflicted more pain on Nigerians.

But these Nigerians have become inured to painfully injurious and badly implemented policies of the APC government since 2015. And they have been plenty.

The only soothing balm that Nigerians have had to see the pain they bear for investing their political franchise in APC is the hope that February 25 is a date with history; a more realistic and practical event to pay APC back with its own coin.

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-Utter chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, subterfuge and treasonable felony have set in.

-Suddenly a Buhari that called Gandollar "a responsible man despite glaring videos of his stuffing dollar bribe into his babanriga" is now a truncator of democracy?

-VP Osinbajo, Rotimi Amaechi, Boss Mustapha, Lai Mohammed, etc no more belong to APC.

-APC attack lapdogs of Femi Adeshina, Garba Shehu, Bashir Ahmed are no more talking

-Tinubu is begging Buhari to give him support through the senseless Bayo Onanuga.

-Tinubu's lackeys have been firing from all cylinders since yesterday. Hehehe! From Nasir El-Rufai, Badaru, Gandollar, Gbajabiamila, Lagos State Attorney-General

-Jungle don mature but Festus Keyamo is no more talking.Urchins and miscreants are confused.

"..As the 2023 general elections beckon, Nigerians and people of goodwill should come together and make sure that the APC and its Leadership does not have access to power again.

This clarion call becomes necessary because APC is a Party that is made up of strange bedfellows whose political and economic interests are antithetical to the development of Delta State in particular and Nigeria in general.

The struggle for power, "grab-grab" and if "it is not me, it cannot be another person's mentality" of APC Leaders is what has brought Nigeria on her knees today!

The above analogy properly fits the APC Leaders. They do not hear the hue and cry of the majority of their followers, and Nigerians who are living in abject poverty!

To show their dangerous and embarrassing level of wickedness, they use their political parrots and emissaries of confusion who have sold their souls to mammon to defend the indefensible; even in the face of a threat to peace and existence of Nigerians!

Criminal Mentality Will Not Work Again In Nigeria Reject APC

Oloriburuku ganduje should hide his head in shame...thief.

There was fuel scarcity before this naira recoloring but none of these useless governors remembered that we're suffering.

Thieves...Apc is demonic, vote them out


Vote OBI2023

The thieving governor who was caught on camera collecting bribe in dollars. Very ugly human being. You've gotten some billions stacked somewhere in 500 and 1000 naira denominations. Now, it's about to become useless. Good Job,Presidency.

Many are mad few are roaming!

For the first time in my life am feeling optimistic about a new Nigeria.

Lets take back our country Nigeria from this corrupt and greedy leaders.

They have been sitting on our destiny for so long and they want their children to continue where they stopped when they die.

Fellow Nigerians, this is a time to put common sense first, forget Tribe,religion and region, remember competence.
Vote wisely.

TheFreshVanilla:
The thieving governor who was caught on camera collecting bribe in dollars. Very ugly human being. You've gotten some billions stacked somewhere in 500 and 1000 naira denominations. Now, it's about to become useless. Good Job,Presidency.

Everyone in APC is devoid of sound reasoning and critical thinking ability. This is why Nigeria is in the mess it is now.

Ganduje is a wailer. Tinubu urchins right now

Our darling dullard is doing well.

I am just excited that this is not a North/South thing.

Most reasonable northerners are against Buhari.

Only piggiiddioootts are with Buhari at this time

Piggiddiiootts amaka

Gandollar should shut his mouth!

Criminals in government, this one who we saw collecting dollars live on video, is talking about democracy, all those monies stolen and hidden by u criminal governors will surely be destroyed and useless in your possession
Shameless criminals, this naira swap policy is hitting you people hard,buhari got this one right this time

Tinubu smoking his weed with pride

I swear to God Almighty buhari is the most foolish president we have in Nigeria so far so good, mannequin 3.0

Lol... these people suddenly care about democracy. What a joke 🤣🤣

APC is a disaster that should never have happened

“What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.” – Gaton Bachelard
The silence of selfish polithiefcians is more deafening than the noise of the oppressor. Let's all speak up now!

APC fighting APC 😂 😂 😂

Drama don the start
Shame to those who voted buhari not once but twice because he is your kinsman 💯💯

This movie is very sweet 🧁🎂

APC Vs APC

Says GanDollars..


The_Dollars _in_the_Babariga_Governor

Bureau de Change governor... Abeg go sleep!

The Naira Redesign Policy is a very good idea; no doubt, but it implementation is draconian in nature. Meanwhile the common man on the streets are feeling it the most.

Even those that are hailing Buhari as a form of revenge to whoever they're having issues with are not exempted from the effects.

From Southern States down to the Northern States, both private and public sector, individuals and corporate organizations.

This is the first time Banks are physically shorting down operation across almost every States in Nigeria, business activities been paralyzed, people are sleeping overnight for days within the bank premises to monitor ATM in order to get cash at least to feed their family.

You can not easily access common commodities and necessities due to lack of cash.

What a politics of bitterness?
What a cruelty?

Tough time never last.
Buhari tenure shall definitely pass.

buhari helped you truncate democracy in Kano 2019, mallam we've not forgotten.

Atiku is coming

I'm sure all this people are not representing our interest

Ganduje the Gandollars that's working with and for Tinubu 😒

Nobody should take him serious. B.as.t.ard!!

The last change Buhari promised Nigerians before he leave office is introducing cashless policy so as to let Tinubu make $1 equal to N1.

correct. We go scatter am las las. Awa lokan

Buhari really gave these evil men the sucker punch.



Meanwhile..

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