By Chidozie Dikachi, Abuja
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign has reminded the Presidential Candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to note that Nigerians are passing through unimaginable pain and wrecking their means of livelihood due to the new naira notes he has stockpiled.
In a statement on Tuesday by its Spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the campaign organization called on Tinubu and his co-travelers in the APC to end their activities of intercepting and hoarding the new notes, for their vote buying plots adding their minding the excruciating hardship their sinister action is causing millions of Nigerians across the country.
He said, “Our campaign is alarmed by the exposed plot by Tinubu Campaign and some APC Governors to secretly swap a whooping N22.5 billion in old N1000 new notes in Kano as well as Lagos State where they will be warehoused for vote buying for the deflated Tinubu campaign.
“The Tinubu Campaign is desperate to mop up new Naira notes by swapping them with their ill-gotten old notes stashed away in secret vaults, because, having been rejected by Nigerians, they had relied solely on vote-buying, financial inducements and heavy bribing to compromise and derail the electoral process”.
The campaign said that it is disturbed by the harrowing experiences being faced by Nigerians who are at the receiving end of the Tinubu Campaign induced cash scarcity ravaging our nation at this time.
The organization lamented that it is devastating to see Nigerians sleeping in the cold at ATM centers, assaulted by the elements of nature, fighting one another in banking halls and ATM stalls in the struggle to get some little cash just because the Tinubu Campaign and corrupt APC leaders had diverted the new notes for their selfish political reasons.
“We find it disheartening that Tinubu and his allies are taking Nigerians from APC induced seven years of weaponized hunger to a wholesome poverty by triggering this unbearable cash scarcity that has wrecked small businesses, destabilized homes and sunk millions of Nigerians into deeper financial abyss.
“Already, Nigerians are forced to face a worse situation than the COVID 19 experience just because Tinubu is hoarding the new Naira notes to manipulate the 2023 presidential election” the opposition party lamented.
The Campaign counselled Tinubu to lift his knees from the neck of Nigerians by ending his new Naira notes hoarding activities so that the new notes can freely flow to Nigerians to run their daily lives.
It urged Nigerians not to succumb to the pressure but remain steadfast in their determination to resist him and free the nation from the shackles of oppressors by voting in Atiku Abubakar as the next President of Nigeria so that he can commence the work of rebuilding the nation.
