“There may be no election next year” – Charly Boy warns

Media personality and entertainer, Charles Oputa aka Charly Boy has warned that the 2023 general election might not hold.

Charly Boy, who is a known supporter of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, lamented that the country was on a free fall.

The Area Fada said that the elections were unlikely to hold because of some serious issues, including the dollar crunch, poverty and hunger, attacks on INEC offices and so on, bedevilling the nation.

Besides these challenges, he said, the powerbrokers that have held the nation hostage for decades have shown unwillingness to relinquish power to the people.

“There may be no election next year going by what I see. I don’t think that these people who have their stronghold on the nation’s political space are willing to relinquish power to the people.

“I repeat, there may not be an election next year. I have been saying this since last year. The way things are going, I doubt it. Nigeria is on a free fall. I have been saying it for years,” Daily Post quoted Charly Boy as saying on Tuesday.

He also faulted the Federal Government’s decision to redesign the nation, saying it was not the solution to the nation’s problems.

Charly Boy said that the N1,000/$1 exchange rate justified his assertion that a dollar could exchange for N1,500 in the near future.

“The redesigning of the Naira is not a solution. How can it be a solution when you are producing nothing and you are not exporting? So you just keep printing money to pay salaries and you think that’s a solution?

“Do you know what will happen at the end of the day? Because anybody who has money now, will not have tomorrow. If you have 5 million Naira today, some people will think it’s a lot of money, but do you know that every day, that 5 million Naira that you have in the bank keeps depreciating?

“If you give it another 4 months, that money will be worth 800k. So where do we go from there? So it looks like there may be no election next year. Everything points to that fact,” Charly Boy said.