Ominous clouds appeared over the general elections last week as chaos spread across the country over a lingering scarcity of fuel and naira notes. The fuel supply crisis has been going on for several months but the currency crisis worsened as the January 31 deadline set by the central bank for use of old naira notes approached.
Speaking at a rally in Ado-Ekiti, on Friday, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, alleged that the scarcity, which has caused frustration and hardship for people across the country, was contrived to precipitate a national crisis and force the general elections to be shifted from 28 February.
“They are hoarding Naira so that you can be angry and fight. They want confusion so that the election can be postponed. What they want is an interim government. But we are wiser than them. We will not fight. Any rat that eats the rat poison will end up killing itself.”
Barely 26 hours after Mr Tinubu’s remarks,…
