PDP: APC Candidate Hoarding Cash, Causing Nigerians Pains
Tamarauemi Ebimini
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign, has alleged that the hoarding of the new Naira notes by the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was causing Nigerians unimaginable pain and wrecking their means of livelihood.
But the former governor of Lagos State has accused the opposition PDP of working to create a national siege with a view to disrupting the presidential election due in a few days. At the same time, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has told Nigerians to hold him and his family accountable should he fail to fulfill his promises as president.
Similarly, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has promised to prioritise education and security if elected, too.
Nevertheless, the APC campaign council, yesterday, launched the Renewed Hope Ambassadors of Nigeria, with a mandate to mobilise 3.5 million votes for Tinubu.
One of the spokespersons for the PDP campaign, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, yesterday, said the APC Campaign was desperate to mop up new naira notes by swapping them with their “ill-gotten” old notes stashed away in secret vaults.
He said, having been rejected by Nigerians, the ruling party had relied solely on vote-buying, financial inducements and heavy bribing to compromise and derail the electoral process.
The PDP campaign said it was disturbed by the harrowing experiences being faced by Nigerians, who were at the receiving end of the Tinubu Campaign-induced cash scarcity ravaging the nation at this time.
He however, noted that it was devastating to see Nigerians sleeping in the cold at ATM centers, assaulted by the elements of nature, fighting one another in banking halls and ATM stalls in the struggle to get some little cash just because the Tinubu campaign and corrupt APC leaders had diverted the new notes for their selfish political reasons.
But Tinubu who spoke in Abuja, yesterday, sympathised with the people especially the downtrodden, who had been made to bear the brunt of the new naira policy by the Central Bank and irregular supply of petrol that had combined to inflict avoidable pains on the masses.
Kwankwanso, on his part, said he would use his experience in Kano state to rebuild the country if elected.
Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar were however absent at the event, but when a former governor of Edo State and erstwhile Labour leader, Adams Oshiomhole, rose to announce his representation of Tinubu, he was shouted down and booed by the workers, who demanded it was either the candidates or no other person.
