Atiku under fire over Naira comments

For allegedly making contradictory remarks regarding the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Naira redesign policy, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 election, has come under fire from opposition groups.

According to reports, Atiku made a U-turn on Sunday and claimed that the CBN’s naira redesign strategy is harming common people.

The former vice president supported the currency redesign strategy over two weeks ago and urged the apex bank to stick to the original deadline of February 10 for the demonetisation of old naira notes.

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Any additional extension, according to the PDP candidate, would defeat the policy’s goal and purpose.
Reacting to Atiku’s change in stance, Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), slammed the PDP candidate for being ‘double-faced’, and ‘playing with the lives of Nigerians’.
Keyamo posted screenshots of Atiku’s comments on Monday morning on his verified Twitter account, saying, “Check out the changing positions of a two-faced candidate always playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, just like he played politics with the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto last year.”

In a similar vein, Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC), implied that Atiku is not a true leader.

On Monday, Sowore posted on Twitter that opportunistic @atiku believed he could use the Naira Design to increase poverty and win the election.

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Any sincere leader would have understood that the “naira design” fraud would harm the nation’s poorest citizens. There is no difference, I keep saying for this reason. He will be selling everything.