Retson Tedheke, a deputy director at the directorate of Agro-commodities in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, says the scarcity of the naira caused by the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria is killing businesses in the rural areas.
He said it was high time Nigerians challenged President Muhammadu Buhari since the president has refused to listen to appeals from all quarters.
Mr Tedheke, in a video he posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday, said Mr Buhari is hurting the people in the rural area with the policy. He noted that employers are unable to pay labourers their wages.
“All over our villages, people are dying of hunger, and the pain which hurts is that President Muhammadu Buhari calls himself the president. President Muhammadu Buhari calls himself the president of the ordinary people, the president of the Talakawa. How can he by this policy be killing rural farmers? I am a farmer that operates a community of 500…
