Ahead of Saturday’s presidential poll, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to comply with the Supreme Court’s injunction aimed at easing the prevailing cash crunch in the polity.
The position was widely endorsed by the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), led by Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, after an emergency meeting held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, yesterday.
APC’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who briefed reporters on the outcome of the meeting held behind closed-doors, said it behooves the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to wade in on the issue.
Adamu said the call was aimed at alleviating the hardship Nigerians have been subjected to by the naira swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He said: “A meeting comprising APC governors held today and the leadership of the National Working Committee (NWC) of our party was summoned and at the end of the discussion, we have resolved as follows and this resolution is without prejudice or whatsoever to the case that is lying at the Supreme Court on the currency redesign.
“We note very seriously that the programme and its implementation is causing tremendous difficulties to the people of Nigeria and to the national economy.
“We urge the AGF and the CBN Governor to respect the Supreme Court order of interim injunction, which is still subsisting. The meeting is urging Mr President to intervene in resolving issues that are causing these great difficulties to the economy.”
Among the APC governors in attendance were Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Muhammed Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Mai Mala Buni (Yobe), Biodun Oyebanji (Ekiti), alongside the deputy governors of Imo and Katsina states.
Adamu led the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Aba Kiyari; Deputy National Chairman (South), Chief Emma Enekwu and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore to the meeting, which started at 2:30p.m.
Tinubu joined the crucial meeting of the party at 5:15p.m. Governors Bagudu Atiku (Kebbi) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) later joined the meeting.
AMID ongoing hardship that has trailed the CBN’s new naira policy, President Buhari, yesterday, appealed for more patience from Nigerians five days to the general elections.
Sending a message home from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he attended the just-concluded African Union (AU) summit, President Buhari said he is fully aware of the hardship some policies of government, “which are meant to bring overall improvement to the country” had caused and appealed for further patience as the government takes appropriate measures to ease them.
“I am appealing to you to exercise further patience as we take appropriate measures to ease these hardships. God willing, there will be light at the end of the tunnel,” the President said in the video recording.
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