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Video: Naira redesign won’t fight corruption – Wike tells Buhari
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has weighed in on the nationwide scarcity of the redesigned N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes, telling President Muhammadu Buhari that the policy will not fight corruption.
Wike derided the implementation on Friday while giving an address at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally in Okrika Local Government Area (LGA), Rivers State.
“Mr President, I know the pressure. But please, since two of us are going at the same time, this policy has nothing to [do with trying to] fight corruption at all. It has nothing to [do with trying to] fighting politicians at all,” he said.
“The policy aims to suffer the people who elected us to govern over them (sic). Our business is not to make the people suffer. We all know how to fight corruption; we all know how to fight politicians. This particular one does not come in at all.”
Like I am going to finish and finish well; Mr President, I'd like you to finish well.
This (Naira redesign) policy is anti-people.
– Gov Nyesom Wike#CTVTweets pic.twitter.com/AmZdNCy3M1— Channels Television (@channelstv) February 3, 2023
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