The presidency has denied allegations that President Muhammadu Buhari and the people around him are scheming towards an interim government by causing chaos in the polity.
There have been violent protests in many Nigerian cities as citizens scramble to access cash caused by the implementation of the Central Bank’s naira redesign policy. Apart from the cash scarcity, there is also petrol scarcity in many states across Nigeria.
The presidency, in a statement issued by presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu on Friday, said those spreading the rumour of interim government are only causing panic.
“Let us clearly, specifically and emphatically state that there is absolutely no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards an interim government or even worse, the truncation of democracy – democracy that he has helped to keep alive not only here at home, in West Africa but throughout the continent,” Mr Shehu wrote.
One of those who raised the…
