Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has alleged agents of the Federal Government were planning to use the cash swap policy and fuel scarcity to incite a crisis for a military takeover.
He said the Federal Government agents behind the naira redesign policy and fuel scarcity were people who lost out in the APC presidential and governorship primaries, accusing them of deliberately causing a crisis to scuttle the 2023 polls.
He said they were plotting to install interim an government to be headed by a retired General and pave way for a military takeover.
El-Rufai, in a 31-paragraph statewide broadcast address titled: “Let us stand up strongly for democracy, peace, and national unity,” said: “On behalf of the government of Kaduna State, I wish to express my deepest regret at the needless suffering you are enduring as a result of the prolonged fuel shortage and the difficulties occasioned by the so-called “currency redesign” policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. We understand your pain. I assure you that as your State Governor, I have been working with my other colleagues to do everything in our power to end these pains.
“While publicly supporting what appeared to be a beneficial policy, we innocently engaged privately with the President and the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria to review the implementation of the policy to reduce its negative impact on the lives and livelihoods of our people and end the pain being inflicted on citizens. In the absence of any progress to modify implementation on the part of the architects, we were forced to go public about two weeks ago, with our concerns and demand that this suffering must stop.
Credit: The Nation
