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The governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Tuesday, February 7, alleged that some anti-democratic elements were pulling some strings to re-enact the annulled June 12, 1992, presidential election.
The governor, a staunch member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), noted that these elements are regrouping and dangerously masquerading in the prevailing crisis generated by the scarcity of the new naira notes to scuttle the nation’s hard-earned democracy.
Ganduje also reacted to an interim injunction by a federal high court in Abuja stopping the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from extending the 10-day deadline for the currency swap.
He noted that, “The group’s latest attempt is to use legal instruments to further impose unfeasible cash policy that is already taking its toll on the masses in the country.
“These unknown political parties are also colluding with the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to execute this fiendish scheme.”
Ganduje noted that the open support for the policy by the main opposition party, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lay bare the grand complicity between the opposition and the apex bank to deliberately thwart the nation’s hard-earned democracy by imposing harsh policies calculated to weaken the masses ahead of the general elections.
He said that, “It is unfortunate that the CBN and its collaborators are insisting unnecessarily on the imposition of an unreasonable time frame for the old naira notes to cease to be legal tender.
“The rigid insistence on the implementation of these harsh, inhuman and insensitive cash policies to a point of neglecting their widespread rejection by the vast majority of Nigerians including the national assembly and all state governors, is an ominous agenda for the undermining of the nation and consequent scurrying of a smooth transition to a freely and fairly elected successive administration,” the governor added.
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