The Peoples Democratic Party stands behind President Muhammadu Buhari on the recirculation of the old N200 notes.
The party also lambasted the APC for taking advantage of Nigerians’ suffering in getting Naira notes to derail the democratic process.
A spokesman of the PDP presidential campaign council, Mr Charles Aniagwu canvassed these views today while speaking to reporters in Asaba.
He lauded the president of being sensitive to the sufferings of Nigeria.
Said Aniagwu:
“We must agree with the President that we appreciate the things that Nigerians are going through on account of the scarcity of the new Naira note redesign.
“We believe that it is important that the CBN takes steps to further ameliorate what the masses are going through. And what the President did today, is a pointer that government is desirous of solving the challenges being experienced by very credible Nigerians as they approach the banks for their monies.
“The decision of the President that authorises the release of the old N200 naira notes into the economy in order to reduce the sufferings of people, is a welcome development.
“We also agree that it is important to take steps to curb corruption, issues of vote buying and that of insecurity, which has been a major problem. So this policy to a large extent, have addressed that.
“We do hope that the sufferings Nigerians are going through will be mitigated by this directive that Mr. President has given the CBN to release the old N200 naira notes up till the 10th of April,”
He therefore appealed for calm and patience to allow the CBN implement the President’s directive, noting that it would to a large extent ameliorate their sufferings.
The PDP spokesman disclosed that APC was trying to exploit the situation to cause crisis in the country.
Aniagwu who is also the Commissioner for Information in Delta State said “Those who might have stock piled money would have done so in the N500 and N1000 naira denominations, adding “we can assure you that the steps they are taking to trigger violence is not because they are fighting for us.
“But because they want to do those things to undermine the peace that we have in Delta State and across the federation.
“Since this policy came in, we have it from intelligence agencies that the spate of kidnapping has stopped because if you kidnap anybody and asked the person to get huge sums of money for ransome, where is the person going to get it from?
