Presidential Candidate, and Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has expressed shock over the backlash on President Muhammadu Buhari by some governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the Naira redesign policy.
The presidential candidate of the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) said it came to him as a surprise to see the APC chieftains knocking the Nigerian leader in that manner for siding with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to have some of the country’s currency notes changed to address some issues including vote buying and money laundering.
News360 Info recalls that some APC governors had dragged the federal government, the CBN and the Attorney General of the Federation to court over the new naira redesign policy.
The APC chieftains faulted President Buhari’s government for implementing such a policy at the time the country was already battling many issues.
Reacting, Kwankwaso said the state leaders reacted that way because the policy had eventually rendered their loot useless.
The NNPP presidential candidate said: “In each state, you have branches of banks, and in some states, you have even the national headquarters of those banks. On the one hand, we thought they (governors) would take all the billions from government houses and so on.
“But we realized these same governors were abusing their leaders, insulting them; I was shocked. I never thought some of them could abuse Buhari to that level.
On another hand, I was surprised that facts were coming out, and we began to wonder what was wrong with them. Maybe EFCC was right that some governors are keeping billions of naira in their compounds across the country.
Now the policy has made that looted money completely useless; I think that is why they are angry. So we are so happy with the federal government on that; the money they have collected is completely zero; it has expired.
Kwankwaso appealed to security and anti-graft agencies to keep their eyes on the politicians to stop vote buying in any form in the 2023 general elections.
He assured that his party would also assist the federal government, especially on election day to monitor and report vote buyers, Naija News reports.
Please tell all members of NNPP to join EFCC, to join the police and other security agencies that wherever they see attempts to buy votes, please stop them,” Kwankwaso said.
