The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, recently reiterated the position of the apex bank that there will be no going back on the 31 January deadline despite the hurdles Nigerians face to get the new notes.
Although Mr Emefiele claimed that there is adequate supply of the new notes – N200, N500 and N1000 – in circulation, the reality, however, is that commercial banks either do not have enough of the notes for their customers or their ATMs do not dispense them at all.
The statement noted that rather than what the PDP would want Nigerians to believe that Mr Tinubu had blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the current challenges in the country, the PCC said Mr Tinubu in his statement in Abeokuta “was only adverting government’s attention to the sabotage being carried out by some Fifth Columnists in the system, possibly working in cahoots with the PDP.”
No sooner Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu empathised with the Nigerian people facing the dual crises of fuel and new Naira notes scarcity than the opposition PDP and the Atiku camp issued a knee-jerk response, derailing from the issues, distorting Asiwaju’s statement and trying, in vain, to create a wedge between our presidential candidate and President Muhammadu Buhari.
Similarly, Asiwaju Tinubu is aware of the salutary efforts by President Buhari to end the fuel queues, by chairing a 14-man panel. Yet the queues and agony continue. How does an advisory genuinely made by Asiwaju Tinubu to protect and create goodwill for the government of his party become an attack? It can only be so in the jaundiced view of the PDP.
As a patriotic and compassionate leader, Asiwaju Tinubu will not stomach seeing ordinary Nigerians being made to face excessive difficulties over mundane issues due to activities of petrol and currency hoarders.
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