Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of New Nigerian People Party (NNPP), has attributed the fight some governors elected on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, picked up with President Muhammadu Buhari over the naira swap to alleged scuttling of their plan to rig the forthcoming by the monetary policy.
About nine state governors from the ruling APC including Nasir el-Rufai, Yayaha Bello, Abubakar Badaru, Dapo Abiodun and Babajide Sanwo-Olu had taken the Buhari-led federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to the Supreme Court seeking a pause of the pair’s naira swap policy precipitating unintended outcomes, among them, violent protests out of cash crunch.
Some of the governors even made uncharitable remarks about the president, his kitchen cabinet, and openly made pronouncements that countered his order on the naira notes.
Their grievances, allegedly, is due to the incapacitated effect the policy has on ill-gotten old notes they stockpiled for election purpose, Kwankwaso said at a function.
The actual words of the former Kano governor: “In each state, you have branches of banks and in some states, you have even the national headquarters of those banks, on one hand we thought they (governors) would take all the billions from government houses and so on.
“But we realize these same governors were abusing their leaders, insulting them, I was shocked. I never thought some of them could abuse Buhari to that level.
“On one hand I was surprised that facts were coming out and we began to wonder what is wrong with them? Maybe EFCC was right that some governors are keeping billions of naira in their compounds across the country.
“Now the policy has made that looted money completely useless, I think that is why they are angry. So we are so happy with the Federal Government on that, the money they have collected is completely zero, it has expired.
“And I think all agencies should keep their eyes on that and I want to assure you that our party is going to assist the Federal Government, especially on election day, please tell all members of NNPP to join EFCC, to join the police and other security agencies that wherever they see try to buy votes, please stop them.”
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