By Marcus Ikechukwu
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has alleged that some anti-democratic elements were pulling a string to re-enact the annulled June 12, 1992, presidential election.
The governor on Tuesday who spoke in a statement by Muhammad Garba, commissioner for information, alleged that these fifth columnists are dangerously masquerading under the guise of the prevailing crisis generated by the cash policy.
He said they have employed legal instruments to further impose what he described as an unfeasible cash policy that is taking a toll on the masses.
Ganduje reaction follows an interim injunction issued by a Federal High Court in Abuja, barring the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from extending the 10-day deadline set for the currency swap.
He accused some of the detractors of colluding with the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to execute this devilish scheme.
The governor said the open support for the CBN policy by the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar also lay credence to the grand complicity between the opposition and the apex bank to deliberately thwart the nation’s hard-earned democracy by imposing harsh policies calculated to weaken the masses.
He said it is most unfortunate that the CBN and its collaborators are insisting “on the imposition of an unreasonable time frame for the old naira notes to cease to be legal tender, in total refutation of the obvious national dearth in the necessary technological infrastructure for the process”.
Ganduje, a strong ally of the APC Presidential flagbearer, Bola Tinubu further noted that the insistence on the implementation of these harsh, inhuman, and insensitive cash policies to a point of neglecting their widespread rejection by the vast majority of Nigerians including the National Assembly and majority of the state governors.
He stated that it is an ominous agenda for undermining the country, especially preparations for a smooth transition to a freely and fairly elected successive administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in the wake of the initial deadline asked Nigerians for a weeklong period to enable him to intervene in the situation.