Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani has dismissed insinuations that the Muhammadu Buhari presidency is plotting to install an interim government with its implementation of the naira redesign policy.
He said this in a tweet on Friday.
Recall that some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano and Mallam Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna, recently made the insinuations.
Speaking late Wednesday in Kano when he received the Forum of Former Parliamentarians, North-West zone, Ganduje said, “This is even beyond not wanting someone to win the election; it is democracy itself they don’t want. They want to set up an interim government committee like that of (Ernest) Shonekan.
“Which credible politician do you think they can put to head such a committee? Except you just bring people that do not represent the masses but their families, those are the ones you can bring to form interim government.”
In a statewide broadcast on Thursday, El-Rufai said those behind the policy want to “ensure that the cash crunch is so serious, along with the contrived and enduring fuel shortage existing since September 2022, that the 2023 Elections do not hold at all, leading to an Interim National Government to be led by a retired Army General.”
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Reacting, Sani said that Buhari having inaugurated a transition committee could not be working to install an interim government.
“It’s impossible to believe that the President who inaugurated a transition committee will at the same time be (booting) the idea of an interim Government.
“Interim Gov’t is a work of fiction by its authors,” Sani said.
See tweet:
It’s impossible to believe that the President who inaugurated a transition committee will at the same time be muting the idea of an interim Government.Interim Gov’t is a work of fiction by its authors.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) February 17, 2023