The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that retention of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government, is an admittance by the ruling party of wrecking the naira.
The party added that the acceptance by the ruling party that it retained a CBN Governor that allegedly supervised the sharing of money and looting of the treasury, is an admission that it deliberately sabotaged the economy and made life very difficult for Nigerians.
The PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, invited Nigerians to note the nervousness, unease and tension that had gripped the APC since the call for the resignation and prosecution of the CBN Governor, Emefiele, was brought to the public, apparently for fear that such would expose the atrocities of APC leaders.
The statement read: “Our party insists that by the comments of the APC National Secretary, Senator John Akpan Udoedehe, the APC deliberately kept a CBN Governor that supposedly supervised the ‘sharing and looting’ of monies in office to enable APC leaders to pillage the CBN.
“Akpan Udoedehe might want to be reminded that General Buhari, as he was then known, had in his campaign, promised to fight corruption, yet he retained a CBN Governor, who his party is now accusing of having superintended over ‘sharing and looting’ of funds in the CBN.
“Is it not revealing that six years down the line, with the naira heavily
depreciated, the same CBN Governor, whom Akpan Udoedehe claimed to have supervised the ‘sharing and looting’ of monies in CBN is still in office?”
The opposition party then called on the APC and the Buhari Presidency “to come clean on their activities in the CBN that have brought the value of our naira to her knees and stop the horrible resort by the APC to blackmail those who are demanding transparency and accountability in the nation’s fiscal sector.”
