President Bola Tinubu says he could have chosen to keep the previously multiple foreign exchange system and benefit from it, but instead chose to unify the official and parallel market rates to save the country from financial haemorrhage.
President Bola Tinubu says he could have chosen to keep the previously multiple foreign exchange system and benefit from it, but instead, he decided to unify the official and parallel market rates to save the country from financial hemorrhage.
The president said it was imperative to take those decisive actions in the early days of his administration.“I could afford to share the benefit by participating in the arbitrage, but God forbid! That’s not why you voted for me,” he said.
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