Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has cast aspersions on President Muhammadu Buhari and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, over the naira crisis.
A saga of crises have followed the replacement of the N200, N500 and N1000 notes by the CBN, among them: angry customers venting their angers on bank facilities and violent protests breaking out in some states.
It also pitted some governors against the Buhari-led administration and the CBN, as some state governments dragged the federal government and the apex bank to court, asking for a pause of the policy.
One of the governors in question, Ganduje, has torn into the President and the CBN governor, levelling insensitivity and wickedness at them.
The 73-year-old on Wednesday used the occasion of the visit of a group of ex-lawmakers, under the umbrella, Former Parliamentarian Forum, to him, where his guests declared support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to hit out at both, saying, “What is wrong with doing it after elections? Why didn’t he do 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, but you said you need seven days to think over it. The poor man selling vegetable will have his goods rotten (before 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 do that they cannot work.”
Recall that Buhari prided the policy on fighting endemic corruption, among it, vote-buying.
In 2018, a video of Ganduje loading his Babariga’s pockets with dollar notes, believed to be proceeds of bribery and corruption spread through the net.
It resulted in the governor derisively nicknamed, Gandollar, a name that has stuck.
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