Earlier thread: https://www.nairaland.com/7575841/governor-abiodun-shares-old-naira

Residents of Sagamu expressed their frustrations against the governor’s failed assurance that the old naira notes remain legal tenders for commercial activities in the state by pulling down his campaign posters and billboards alongside that of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to make bonfires on major roads.

Agents of Mr Abiodun had visited parts of the states over the weekend, wooing supporters to comply with the opposition that the governor and his APC counterparts had put up against the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) insistence on phasing out old naira notes before the general elections.

The residents of the state accepted the cash disbursement based on the assurance but were disappointed when banks rejected the notes on Monday.

The situation was worsened by the continuing acute shortage of new notes which made many ATMs out of service and banks out of operation.

At press time, traffic flow has been disrupted in the town’s commercial hotspot along Akarigbo road and Sabo, a street that housed major commercial banks.

The protests have now broken into full-scale violence as several bank facilities including the Sagamu offices of Union, First, and Keystone banks have been set on fire by protesting youths.

In videos that have been shared by eyewitnesses on social media, the bank buildings were being burnt and vandalized with no security agency on-site to stem the wanton destruction of the facilities.

The arson complicates the episodes of violence that have rocked the country and fueled by the economic hardship that was occasioned by the scarcity of cash.

Despite the violence and the glaring impracticability of achieving its aims alongside maintaining public peace and economic order, the President Muhammadu Buhari regime has insisted that it will not reconsider its position as regards the cash swap policy.

Mr Buhari’s position violates a subsisting ruling of the Supreme Court which had ordered the presidency to cease the implementation of the policy.

The regime’s flagrant disregard for the country’s apex court, in its twilight, reinforces the public perception of the Buhari regime as an autocratic one, disguised in a democratic charade with scant regard for the rule of law and utter contempt for the country’s constitutional order.

Source- https://gazettengr.com/union-first-bank-keystone-set-ablaze-as-sagamu-rioters-protest-rejection-of-old-notes-given-by-gov-abiodun/

Nlfpmod
Yokiti
Domique
Mynd44
Lalasticlala

Okay

Flush out APC

Let there be sanity in Nigeria

APC and Tinubu will be seriously disgraced at the poll on 25th , it's getting clearer .

It was reported that Tinubu stacked up about 400 billion naira for vote buying at a time Nigerians were struggling for cash. What a wicked soul

That's the plan...

Charity begins at home

Tinubu and his urchins be causing havoc in the west with hope of getting buhari to reverse the old naira deadline. But it wouldn't work. State of emergency should be declared in ogun state asap.

If Tinubu and co. has not been stacking millions of naira notes in his warehouse against CBN regulations, we wouldn't be having this situation.

No one likes tinubu except yoruba Muslims..

Pull down...

Yoruba state news is quick and easy to spread...as fast as 5G speed.

After Saturday tension go die down....

Obi and his fellow asslicker will keep wailing

Voting obi is not about voting the interest of.Nigerians ...it is an opportunity to actualize some of those ABuri accord that Gowon government rejected....

Una go soon dey see ....after the election....

Sad, very sad 😔

Na thiefnubuu send them. This one na disguised attempt to make it look like no be thiefnubuu send them. We know thiefnubuu is the one sponsoring them

PrinceOfLagos:
APC and Tinubu will be seriously disgraced at the poll on 25th , it's getting clearer .

It was reported that Tinubu stacked up about 400 billion naira for vote buying at a time Nigerians were struggling for cash. What a wicked soul

Tinubu no get sense
I warned my husband

Danburuwa:
Earlier thread: https://www.nairaland.com/7575841/governor-abiodun-shares-old-naira

Residents of Sagamu expressed their frustrations against the governor’s failed assurance that the old naira notes remain legal tenders for commercial activities in the state by pulling down his campaign posters and billboards alongside that of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to make bonfires on major roads.

Agents of Mr Abiodun had visited parts of the states over the weekend, wooing supporters to comply with the opposition that the governor and his APC counterparts had put up against the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) insistence on phasing out old naira notes before the general elections.

The residents of the state accepted the cash disbursement based on the assurance but were disappointed when banks rejected the notes on Monday.

The situation was worsened by the continuing acute shortage of new notes which made many ATMs out of service and banks out of operation.

At press time, traffic flow has been disrupted in the town’s commercial hotspot along Akarigbo road and Sabo, a street that housed major commercial banks.

The protests have now broken into full-scale violence as several bank facilities including the Sagamu offices of Union, First, and Keystone banks have been set on fire by protesting youths.

In videos that have been shared by eyewitnesses on social media, the bank buildings were being burnt and vandalized with no security agency on-site to stem the wanton destruction of the facilities.

The arson complicates the episodes of violence that have rocked the country and fueled by the economic hardship that was occasioned by the scarcity of cash.

Despite the violence and the glaring impracticability of achieving its aims alongside maintaining public peace and economic order, the President Muhammadu Buhari regime has insisted that it will not reconsider its position as regards the cash swap policy.

Mr Buhari’s position violates a subsisting ruling of the Supreme Court which had ordered the presidency to cease the implementation of the policy.

The regime’s flagrant disregard for the country’s apex court, in its twilight, reinforces the public perception of the Buhari regime as an autocratic one, disguised in a democratic charade with scant regard for the rule of law and utter contempt for the country’s constitutional order.

Source- https://gazettengr.com/union-first-bank-keystone-set-ablaze-as-sagamu-rioters-protest-rejection-of-old-notes-given-by-gov-abiodun/

Nlfpmod
Yokiti
Domique
Mynd44
Lalasticlala

These APC supporters are morons, imagine the so called sophisticated......

peter Obi is the next president after Buhari. Datti is the next president after Obi. Kwankwaso is the next president after Datti. this i have seen

Vote buying gone wrong

APC demystification this weekend go sweet die

Hmmmmmm...
Abiodun need to be arrested. How can he share old notes assuring the people of it legality? Such assurances would definitely trigger a protest ones they discover the money is a wastage.

FP Sharp Sharp

Ignoramuses. President give order na councilor una come dey listen to. If Una like make Una destroy all the banks in your state. When the naira finally becomes available Una go use 5k withdraw 10k for POS. You wouldn't expect a POS operator that travels to another state to withdraw money to charge you N200 for 10k

This is the disadvantage of politicians sponsoring protest.

Hoodlums will hijack it and hurt you

Tinubu's disgrace will start from South-West this week. We yoruba Christians will never vote Tinubu on Muslim-Muslim ticket because we are not fools. When MURIC terrorists told Yoruba Muslims not to vote Yoruba Christians, they all agree. Since no yoruba muslim in Nigeria will ever vote Christian-Christian ticket, why should we christians now vote Mu-Mu ticket?

Christians are not minorities, slaves, or second class citizens in Nigeria. Mu-Mu ticket is a big insult to we Yoruba Christians and we shall punish Tinubu for that before Satan will also punish him.

"We cannot appoint Pablo Escobar as president and Osama bin Laden as vice president," -- Senator Dino Melaye

Jungle don mature. Gullible populace are believing two criminals convicted of crime in the US @ different times. If you like follow a balablu drug man.

SatanKeepOff:
peter Obi is the next president after Buhari. Datti is the next president after Obi. Kwankwaso is the next president after Datti. this i have seen

wetin dis one smoke

Validated:
FP Sharp Sharp

na wetin dis one dey like b dis.
Any bad news going on, no good news make him happy, wife is card carrying afenifere wey wan vote for a terrorist and criminal. Nonsense, na dem

PrinceOfLagos:
APC and Tinubu will be seriously disgraced at the poll on 25th , it's getting clearer .

It was reported that Tinubu stacked up about 400 billion naira for vote buying at a time Nigerians were struggling for cash. What a wicked soul

That fake news has been debunked by Efcc ,ode

blabulu2000:
Pull down...

Yoruba state news is quick and easy to spread...as fast as 5G speed.

After Saturday tension go die down....

Obi and his fellow asslicker will keep wailing

Voting obi is not about voting the interest of.Nigerians ...it is an opportunity to actualize some of those ABuri accord that Gowon government rejected....

Una go soon dey see ....after the election....

You are the most foolish urchins I have ever seen

Ofunaofu:


You are the most foolish urchins I have ever seen

He pain....am...

I'm not a foolish person like some of those you deceive on Nairaland with comments and edited pictures...

Carry your flatted head come .. Let's talk politics...

blabulu2000:



He pain....am...

I'm not a foolish person like some of those you deceive on Nairaland with comments and edited pictures...

Carry your flatted head come .. Let's talk politics...

The only politics you know is that the Emilokan drug lord will win but demonstrate the pathway in which he will achieve you won't

Tinubu is unelectable

Know this and know peace

blabulu2000:
Pull down...

Yoruba state news is quick and easy to spread...as fast as 5G speed.

After Saturday tension go die down....

Obi and his fellow asslicker will keep wailing

Voting obi is not about voting the interest of.Nigerians ...it is an opportunity to actualize some of those ABuri accord that Gowon government rejected....

Una go soon dey see ....after the election....

Shut up your mouth, what do you know about politics.

Press Statement
For immediate release

20-02-2023


The politically motivated protest in Sagamu.


Early this morning, a politically motivated violent protest took place in Sagamu, during which innocent people were attacked while banks and public infrastructures were destroyed and razed down by fire . We were reliably informed that some disgruntled members of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose members and some of the party’s candidates were seen leading the demonstration.

While the protests were purportedly against the “scarcity of naira notes”, the real intention of these elements became obvious with the involvement of known PDP members.

It is on record that the campaign tour of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which moved through Simawa to Ogijo and back to Sagamu, where two roads were commissioned yesterday, ended without any hitch. The APC rally was attended by tens of thousands of people at different locations, lasting from about 8.00 am. in the morning to 8.00pm in the evening without any violence, quarrels, or disagreements whatsoever.

We believe strongly that it was the success of the APC rally of yesterday that got the feeble opposition PDP frustrated and therefore made their members embark on the mindless destruction of properties.

The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has been on top of the fallouts of the naira re-design issues. The Governor had visited the Central Bank headquarters in Abeokuta and some other commercial banks’ branches, made a state broadcast and empathize with the people with a reassurance that efforts are on to ameliorate the negative impacts of the controversial policy on the people. Ogun State is also one of the states that has taken the Federal Government to court on the naira swap policy.

Attacks on innocent people and the destruction of private and public properties can not solve the current problem but will rather worsen the situation. Therefore, we must not allow desperate politicians to mislead members of the public and use them as cannons to vent frustration.

Rather, our people should exercise patience and be law abiding while waiting to cast their votes for the party that has stood by the populace even at this critical period.

Arrests have been made by the police, who immediately swung into investigation. Ogun State has been acknowledged as one of the most peaceful states in Nigeria; and the government shall not fold its hands and allow the state to be defined by thuggery, violence, and arson. The full wrath of the law will be made to bear on the culprits, no matter who their sponsors are.

E-signed

Kunle Somorin
Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun

APC just provoked the masses more