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Mustapha Audu, a senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, has criticized President Muhammadu

Buhari for approving the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) naira policy.
According to Naija News, there have been a number of controversies and knocks on Buhari’s administration as a result of newly implemented monetary policies.

The APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, were among the first members of the ruling party to condemn the policy.

Some northern governors have also taken the federal government to court over the development, which they claim has caused hardship for citizens in their respective states.

Some Nigerians, however, believe that the governors acted selfishly, according to Xclusivesongs News.

But, speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, Audu, who is currently the Spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), North Central, said the President is making the right moves at the wrong time.

According to him, despite the Nigerian leader’s good intentions for the country, particularly in light of the 2023 election, the timing of the Naira policy implementation was incorrect.

He said: “There are some policies of the government that are not so great to the Nigerian people. We’ve to be honest. The President has implemented some policies to clean up the election, like the cash swap policy, but obviously, you can see some sabotage in the implementation. You can see there are negative effects on Nigerians.”

If something is wrong, we will speak out against it.

Speaking further during the interview, Audu said the APC is filled with intellectual people, and they have to speak out if they notice something is going wrong.

He said that despite the economic benefits of the naira policy, people are suffering so much from its negativity.

Audu said: “Sometimes you have to weigh the cost-benefit of some policies to see when to implement them. We’re very dynamic and intelligent people in APC. When we know something is going right, we praise it, and when we know something is not going right we’re going to speak against it. There’s no point glamorizing what does not work; you have to say it.

“You have to speak the truth to power if there are problems and build on the ones that are good. A lot of us were worried about the cash policy. You can see the economic benefits vs the negativity we are suffering right now.

“So these are the things we’re fighting against right now as a party. We, as a party, came together to fight certain things. Let’s take the cash crunch that is hitting Nigeria, for instance, which I’d affect the farmers and people in the hinterland.

“The thought behind it was to clean the election. He wants to leave the legacy of clean elections. But people say that this is the time Nigerians move around every election.”

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