Naira Crisis: Presidency Warns El-Rufai, Ganduje
The Presidency Friday said there was no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was working towards the truncation of democracy through the installation…


By
Muideen Olaniyi
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:27:21 WAT
The Presidency Friday said there was no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was working towards the truncation of democracy through the installation of an interim government.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement titled “Stop the Joke about Interim Government, Elections Will Hold.”

While Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano State had alleged that the naira redesign policy of President Buhari was aimed at truncating Nigeria’s democracy, his counterpart in Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, claimed the scarcity of naira notes was a part of the plots to disrupt the forthcoming elections in order to ensure the emergence of an interim government.

But in a swift reaction, the presidential spokesman said it was another dangerous dimension by people who were afraid that they might lose their elections.


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Shehu said the creation of an atmosphere of panic was not a strategy to address the pressure that arose from the way the currency swap had been implemented.

He said the naira swap was not “engineered” to keep the President in office beyond May 29, stressing that “the President looks forward to handing over the reins of power to his elected successor. This will happen on May 29, 2023 as the Constitution requires it.


“The days of unelected Nigerian leaders, and those who outstay their welcome by unconstitutionally extending it, have gone.”

Shehu said: “Elections, just a week ahead, will hold and Nigerians will vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, (and any others if they so wish) on the basis of their choice.

“Our people want progress, good governance, law and order and will not be swayed by the negative energy that is being expended against a well-meaning currency change.”

He also reiterated the President’s support for the APC presidential candidate, saying “to state that: the President clearly has a favoured successor in Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is not in doubt.

“The fact that Tinubu has been opposed to the speed and timing of the Naira swap timetable does not mean he is against the idea of Nigeria becoming a cashless society. Of course, Tinubu does support a cashless society: for he is a man of the future.”

The statement read: “Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda Chief of Adolf Hitler said ‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’. This was in the 1930s, before the internet was birthed.


“Let us clearly, specifically and emphatically state that there is absolutely no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards an interim government or even worse, the truncation of democracy- democracy that he has helped to keep alive not only here at home, in West Africa but throughout the continent.

“The talk of interim government and truncation of democracy is way off the mark. Those who peddle it stand to gain nothing- nothing at all -but the creation of panic and the incitement of the public against the federal government….

“Everybody is aware that there is a lot of pressure on everyone-all of us- the party, its elected officials, its candidates and law enforcement agencies following the way the currency swap has gone but the way to go is not to panic.

“There is indeed a problem and nobody will pretend that it doesn’t exist.

“It is precisely because the President is concerned with this problem that he opened several avenues for consultation with leaders and groups across the country, culminating in his broadcast to the nation on Thursday morning.

“In line with the speech, his clear and unequivocal directive is that the problem of cash supply must be addressed without delay.

“While this is being done, there is no need to panic. We need to work together as leaders; as a people and as one nation. When panic hits, people go into overdrive. Shouting helps no one because no one can listen. The solution to the problem is not in sending Nigerians into confusion.”


https://dailytrust.com/naira-crisis-presidency-warns-el-rufai-ganduje/

Ok

Buhari should have done this Naira redesign some weeks to his re-election in 2019 instead of forming a super cop or economist now. In the process suffering millions of masses with loosing obidients and cabal's Atikulators, his newly found lovers hailing him.

APC must take responsibility for its policy failures.

They have no plan for this country

Shame on FG

Tinubu is the major cause of this currency problem, Tinubu stole money Tru bullion van during last election

I read the full statement from beginning to the end, I didn't see any warning there. You IPOB miscreants wandering around on Nairaland should stop peddling lies.

Good

Shame on rigging plotters.

quote author=Ttalk post=120996214]Shame on FG[/quote]

Hmm

Ttalk:
Shame on FG

I stand with the FG

Vote buyers can cry all they want , we don't care.

Buhari4sale:

Why would you want them to suffer from what is not their issues

Thiefnu.bu, the druglord cum walking dead creature must pay for his treachery. No sane human would support a drug lord to rule Nigeria even in his dream, anybody who supports the sick thing and drug lord needs to have his head examined.

Coolsperm:
Tinubu is the major cause of this currency problem, Tinubu stole money Tru bullion van during last election

You post this everywhere and people only laugh at your effort since what you typed has no meaning; only Obidient would have done this... Just listened to yourself, 'he stole money tru bullion van...

Alba3:
Buhari should had done this Naira redesign some weeks to his re-election in 2019 instead of forming a super corp or economist now. In the process suffering millions of masses with loosing obidients and cabal's Atikulators, his newly found lovers hailing him.

and his old time core supporters hating him

But the man Buhari doesn't care about you and your opinion

michlins:
and his old time core supporters hating him

But the man Buhari doesn't care about you and your opinion

Enjoy your hero, Buhari and don't wail again.

No be only to warn them bubu. Show them you have no regards for rule of law by locking those idiots up and subjecting them to gruesome torture until they confess what they did to manufacture the dumbest urchins of our time.

Only those afraid of losing election are claiming Interim Government

Psalmistproject:
No be only to warn them bubu. Show them you have no regards for rule of law by locking those idiots up and subjecting them to gruesome torture until they confess what they did to manufacture the dumbest urchins of our time.

Ok

The sweetest angle to all these nonsense is that all those who helped Buhari to be lawless even tolerating his impunity.

dustmalik:
I read the full statement from beginning to the end, I didn't see any warning there. You IPOB miscreants wandering around on Nairaland should stop peddling lies.

Your problem is Ipob meanwhile the country you called yours is in bad shape.

Psalmistproject:
No be only to warn them bubu. Show them you have no regards for rule of law by locking those idiots up and subjecting them to gruesome torture until they confess what they did to manufacture the dumbest urchins of our time.

LmaO

Alba3:
Buhari should had done this Naira redesign some weeks to his re-election in 2019 instead of forming a super corp or economist now. In the process suffering millions of masses with loosing obidients and cabal's Atikulators, his newly found lovers hailing him.

I can feel your pain. Say no to vote buying!