The All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari over poor economic management.
According to Tinubu, the poor handling of the nation’s economy has seen the president plunge the naira to record lows, driving the naira from N200 per dollar in 2015 to N800 per dollar in 2023 in the parallel market.
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“Today, they moved the exchange rate from N200 to N800; if they had repaired it, if they had arrested this, we wouldn’t be where we are today; we would be greater.
“They don’t know the way; they don’t know how to think; they don’t know how to do,” he said.
This he said at a rally in Calabar, the state capital of Cross River State, on Tuesday.
This recent outburst is following a much more recent one in which he condemned the Federal Government for masterminding the fuel scarcity situation and the CBN’s redesign of the naira note, which he claims were plans to sabotage his chances of winning the February 25 election.
At the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta, the former Lagos State Governor said in Yoruba, “Let fuel be expensive; only they know where they keep it. Keep the petrol, keep the naira; we will vote and be elected. You may change the ink on the naira notes. What you expect will not happen. We will win. They thought they could cause trouble; they sabotaged fuel, but with or without fuel, with or without motorcycles and tricycles, we will vote and win. This is a superior revolution. We will take over the government through our PVCs. Even if they say there is no fuel, we will trek to the polling units.”
