Tinubu urged to address nation on old naira notes

The Mayor of Urhoboland and a renowned ex-militant leader, Eshanakpe Israel a.k.a Akpodoro has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently address Nigerians on the status of the old naira notes as citizens were already rejecting them.
Speaking in Abuja at the weekend,he noted that with the notes being rejected across states, if government does not address it urgently, it may add to the current hardship being experienced by Nigerians.

According to him, residents in states in the Niger Delta and some other parts of the country, are rejecting the old notes and in some cases it is causing uproar like in Ughelli and some other popular markets in Delta State where market women and men are rejecting the notes.

He urged Tinubu to engage Nigerians on the issue since the National Orientation Agency(NOA) appears “to be docile and sleeping on duty.”

The Mayor said if the hardship of naira scarcity is added to the increase in prices of commodities including petroleum products, food stuff, skyrocketing foreign exchange rate, then he feared the nation may collapse if the President doesn’t act accordingly.

He wondered why the agency of government saddled with the responsibility of enlightening and educating the citizens on the policies and programmes of government like NOA “is clueless and grossly inept”.

The Mayor expressed shock that since the rumoured victory of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN in the Supreme Court which reportedly granted the use of the old and new notes side by side indefinitely, the Ministry of Information and its NOA agency have made any statement on the issue.

“Nigeria is a cash-driven economy and whatever will make the naira scarce again should not be condoned,” he added.