New Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso said the President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria were punishing ordinary Nigerians with the naira redesign policy. Here argued that politicians and influential Nigerians whom the President and the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele claimed to be targeting with the policy are not in any way affected by the scarcity of the new naira notes and the cash crunch in its wake. Senator Kwankwaso who was speaking on Channels TV Sunrise programme Thursday said: “Government should be in place to sort out issues for its people, not inflate unnecessary hardships. “What the government is saying has to do with people who would want to take too much money, like leaders and politicians. “They don’t know that many of our colleagues, those who are contesting, especially the presidential candidates, and by extension all those in their parties are owners of the banks. “And not only that, people close to them have banks everywhere. So, they will lose nothing. PDP has governors, and APC has governors. Governors by now would have collected so much money from the banks in their states. “If their friends have got banks, I’m sure one or two of them may have banks or own large shares in some of these banks. “Some people in politics may be complaining for some strategic reasons, but I believe it is just a gimmick, I don’t believe that they mean it. We believe they don’t have issues. You see the people with real issues are the masses, businessmen, petty traders.”
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