By adenitan Akinola
The Special Adviser to immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari, on media, Mr Femi Adesina says the naira redesign policy carried out by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) prevented electoral fraud during the last general elections.
Mr Adesina contended that it also reduced the problem of kidnapping.
Fielding questions from journalists in Osogbo, during a media chat organised by Association of Osun Veteran Journalists, Osun State Chapter, the former Presidential spokesperson said Nigeria had a better election due to the money redesign policy.
He posited that former Governor of CBN sold the idea of naira re-design to the then president and defended it with every facts and the president reportedly gave him approval.
According to him, “Do you know that during the new naira redesign policy that resulted to the money scarcity, kidnappers were out of business?. An APC chairman and Secretary in Kano state was kidnapped when the kidnappers saw that nobody was calling them for ransom they left them”.
He further said: “Have you seen where a seating governor lost an election? Its because of cash policy. Do you know that about 9 former governors lost election into the senate, it was because of the policy”.
Mr. Adesina noted that, “There was a day my cooking gas got finished I was cooking and I had no money to buy because there was cash scarcity, I had to borrow from someone to finish my cooking. The cash scarcity affected every one including those of us that were at the Presidential Villa as at that time”.
While saying former President Buhari fought insecurity (Boko Haram )to a stand still, he disclosed that there was a time President Buhari gave an order to security agencies to shoot anyone with unauthorised AK47 rifle because it only security personnel were constitutionally authorized to carry such rifle .
Justifying the heated criticism during Buhari administration which he said was majorly coming from the opposition party Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, those who had personal expectations from the president, Mr Adesina said his principal did his best in tackling insecurity in the country saying Mr president believed that governance is continual.
On the accusation that former President Buhari administration failed to obey many court orders, the former spokesman said it was not on any record that his principal disobeyed court orders, saying that Mr President obeyed court orders, including the Supreme Court order on the usage of old and new naira notes.
When asked to critically access former President Buhari performance during his 8 years of governance, Adesina said, “You cannot access a government in one area but its entirety. You don’t access a government by its head but by entirety of the people”.
On the performance of the present administration of President Bola Tinubu, he said it was too early to access a government that had just spent 108 days in office, urging Nigerians to pray for and support the new administration.
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