Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has accused the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emeifiele of deliberately implementing the Naira swap policy to a fighting back strategy for failing to get a presidential ticket under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ganduje said this during an electioneering campaign rally held at Tsanyawa yesterday where he presented the party’s gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial candidates, alongside other candidates, to the voters.

The Governor emphasized that “The CBN Governor is only doing this to confuse the forthcoming elections for no just reason. “He has not been in a good mood for long because he failed to secure a Presidential ticket on the platform of our great party, the APC.”He insisted that the Kano State government and the APC in the State were totally against the action of the CBN Governor.

“Currency redesign is done across the globe, but not in the way we are witnessing in our country. The timing is wrong, the deadline given is very wrong and deliberate,” he said.

He further stated “we will summon bank managers very soon to interrogate the shortage of new Naira notes in banks. “They should come over and explain to us why our people are still suffering over this issue of Naira swap. I will go to them individually to supervise what is happening and why.”

At the palaces of the District Heads of Kunchi and Tsanyawa local government areas, he urged community leaders to create awareness within their jurisdiction to let people know that, “the hardship people facing was single-handedly caused by the CBN Governor, to purposely confuse our democratic process.”

Ada Peter