Naira Scarcity: Atiku is Nigeria’s public enemy number one – APC Campaign Council

Tamarauemi Ebimini

The APC Presidential Campaign Council says Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the opposition PDP in the 25 February presidential election, is Nigeria’s number one public enemy

The council said this against the backdrop of a statement credited to Atiku where he said: “There should be no further postponement of the new naira regime after the expiration of the February 10 deadline.”

APC PCC in a statement on Friday signed by Bayo Onanuga, its spokesperson, said “it found it ludicrous that a man who joined the call for an extension of the deadline for naira swap last week is championing a new campaign against the further extension because he feels the suffering of Nigerians will serve his own political end to become president at all cost.”

While at a rally in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC, alleged that the twin problems of fuel scarcity and new naira notes scarcity were plans of saboteurs to prevent him from winning the forthcoming presidential election.

The statement noted that Atiku and the PDP had maintained what it called an opportunistic silence on the naira swap deadline with the hope “they will benefit from the discomfort the policies will create for Nigerians and the resentment they will generate for the ruling APC.”

The campaign council noted that it is clear to every Nigerian of conscience that Atiku and the PDP do not mean well for the country.

“PDP and Atiku have become desperadoes who will wish calamity on the country as long as it makes them win an election they are destined to lose, spectacularly,” the statement read partly.