The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has asserted that Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is the mastermind of the new naira notes crunch.
The Spokesperson of the Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Friday said that Tinubu is the real enemy of Nigerians and not the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
It stated Tinubu by sabotaging the distribution of the new notes, has made the people to suffer untold hardship ever known in the national history.
“The Campaign alerts Nigerians of a high-level criminal racket through which Tinubu is reported to have been sabotaging the system, intercepting and diverting millions of new naira notes meant for distribution to Nigerians for his selfish ‘Emilokan’ purposes.
“It is indeed despicable that Tinubu, knowing that he has been exposed of being criminally responsible for the biting cash crunch on Nigerians, is seeking to divert public attention from his heinous crime by criticizing Atiku Abubakar’s widely applauded patriotic call for the extension of currency swap deadline”.
The campaign challenged the APC Presidential Candidate to come clean on allegations that he has been using Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Companies as well as fraudulent officials in some APC-led States to intercept and mop up cash to the detriment of millions of Nigerians.
The organizatiin Alleged that in the desperation to cover his tracks, Tinubu, mounted a campaign of calumny against the Federal Government on the scarcity of the naira while secretly intercepting and diverting the notes for his selfish use.
“It is despicable that the Tinubu Campaign will be engaged in the activities that are responsible for the scarcity of the naira, for which Nigerians are suffering untold distress, yet he mounts the soap box to create the impression that he is the champion of the people.
“It is also worrisome that the person claiming to be concerned about the plight of Nigerians is actually the one responsible for their woes and at the same time urging them towards insurrection”.
The campaign urged Tinubu to own up to the frustration that Nigerians are presently confronting.
“Moreover, it is clear that the Tinubu Campaign has taken to this despicable route in its desperation to incite Nigerians, trigger crisis and position Tinubu as the liberator.
“Nigerians are not unaware that Tinubu has bluntly refused to advise this administration on the negatives of its policies just because he (Tinubu) wanted it to fail to enable him to appear as a messiah.
“It is absurd that Tinubu prioritized his ambition above the wellbeing of over 200 million Nigerians on behalf of whom Atiku Abubakar appealed to the Federal Government to ameliorate the situation and ensure that the new naira notes are made available to the people” it said.
The campaign counselled Tinubu to immediately make confessions, offer restitution and ask for forgiveness from Nigerians.
