The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that the naira redesign policy of the Federal Government being executed by the Central Bank of Nigeria was done by persons fighting the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 general election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The outspoken APC Governor made the allegation in a statewide broadcast to his people on Thursday night.
El-Rufai spoke after a nationwide broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari earlier in the day on the controversial cashless policy.
He said it was conceived and sold to the President by government officials who lost out in the presidential primaries of the APC.
He said after Tinubu won “and did not pick one of them as his running mate”, the currency redesign policy was conceived to ensure “he is deprived of what they alleged is a humongous war chest”.
The governor further listed what the alleged planners also sought to achieve, including create a nationwide shortage of cash.
This, he said, would ensure citizens are incited to vote against APC candidates across the board, resulting in massive losses for the party in all the elections.
El-Rufai said the cash crunch was planned along with the fuel shortage existing since September 2022 so that the 2023 elections “do not hold at all, leading to an Interim National Government to be led by a retired Army General”.
He added that the plot is to sustain the climate of shortage of fuel and food to cause “violence and breakdown of law and order that would provide a fertile foundation for a military take-over”.
The full broadcast is published elsewhere on this news website.