Abimbola Ogunnaike
The Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)to allow the old and new naira notes to co-exist as legal tenders for the next 12 months.
The APC standard bearer also asked the Apex Bank to stop all charges associated with online transactions and bank transfers till the current crisis is over.
The spokesperson of the Tinubu-Shetima campaign, Festus Keyamo, disclosed this in a statement issued over the weekend and made available to thegazellenews.com.
Keyamo, who stated that the CBN must act quickly to save Nigerians from the hardship caused by the cash crunch in the last couple of weeks,added that the CBN should make cash available to Nigerians to ease the pain.
“Following the advice of the National Council of States, the CBN should announce that the old and new Naira notes will co-exist as legal tender for the next Twelve months to follow examples of countries that have successfully implemented similar monetary policy,” he said.
