El Rufai Alleges There People In Power Who Are Spending New Naira Notes In Bulk

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has claimed that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are behind the Naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The governor while speaking in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice Of America (VOA), said that the policy was made to prevent the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) from having cash during elections.

He said: “Those that came up with the policy to stop us from having cash during elections have succeeded since up till now there is no cash on the ground, it has been hidden. 

“But we got the news that PDP candidates are given new currencies and they will all bring them out on election day to give to the people. 

“I’m calling on the people to know that those who give you cash are those that hijacked the cash which was supposed to be given to you, and so I  advise that you take action on that.”

El Rufai Ordered Residents To Continue To Use Old Naira Notes

Recall, Governor El-Rufai ordered Kaduna residents to continue to transact with old higher denominations against the directive of the President and the CBN.

According to him, the naira redesign policy, as introduced by the CBN on the consent of President Buhari, is a weapon schemed by some persons at the helm of power to frustrate the presidential ambition of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu.

He also spoke in a viral video clip when he was interviewed, “Anyone that says governors are not bothered about what’s going on in the country, only this one (currency redesign), truly they didn’t do us well, and God will fight for us.

“Even this issue of currency redesign, how many times did we sit with the president to talk? While sitting with the CBN governor when we realised the case was getting nowhere, we concluded that the best thing is to take the matter to court, and that’s all people know.”

Why We Sued Federal Government

The governor explained that one of the reasons they took the case to court is because some people with special interests were behind the currency redesign.

He particularly said that when All Progressives Congress went to court, a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party came out in court to say they are in support of the government making people pass through hardship, and so the deadline for the currency should not be extended.

He said, “So, for any right-thinking person, he or she will reason that this is a policy invented not by the APC or the government, but by a few persons of interest who moulded their wicked idea and sold it to the president.”