…Asks Government To Declare National Emergency
Nigerian Professor and Accord Party Presidential Candidate, Chris Imumolen has said that the ongoing naira and fuel scarcity faced by Nigerians are calculated plans to scuttle 2023 general elections.
Imumolen who is the youngest presidential candidate said this during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday evening, decrying the hardship faced by Nigerians as a result of the ‘twin problem.’
According to him, the decision to redesign naira notes was a good one but poorly executed, thereby resulting in a ‘fight by two gorillas’ impacting over 200 million Nigerians.
He decried the epileptic power supply faced by Nigerians, saying that any further delay by government in tackling the issues would subject to risk, Nigeria’s corporate existence.
He said, “Looking at the election coming up in two weeks or from now, Nigeria has been grasping with twin problems of accessing cash, a situation that has now fuelled speculations that the general elections originally fixed for February 25th, and March 11th this year might be postponed as unconfirmed reports claimed that there are clandestine plots to use this uncertainty of the ongoing crisis to truncate the election.
“We know that what is happening in Nigeria is a calculated attempt by some group of people to ensure that Nigeria does not have a democratically elected president in the next election.
“Nigerians will not succumb to that, Nigerians are tired, Nigerians are suffering, you have money in the bank, yet you cannot access your money, mobile banks are not working, Nigerians are frustrated, no money to move from one place to another, jobs are closing up for lack of funds. It has not happened in the history of Nigeria.
“So we want to call on government to yield to the cry of the people. If the government of today does not declare a national emergency to quickly look at the problem of cash scarcity and fuel scarcity, the nation might be set ablaze, and we as concerned citizens, don’t want that to happen. So it is important that government must begin to look at this issue critically.”
He faulted actions by anti-corruption agencies who were going after point-of-sale agents. He advised the federal government to mobilise resources and tackle the issues from the root to ‘avoid biting the finger of regret later.’
He, therefore, begged citizens to maintain calm expressing optimism that in the coming days, government will rise to the occasion to ensure that Nigerians have a saver and business-enabling economy before and after the elections.
He also implored youths to elect leaders who will lead Nigeria to the next generation, while urging them to free themselves from imprisoned minds and aspire to become great in Nigeria.
“Many Nigerian youths have been so suppressed in their mental oblongata that they cannot by themselves aspire, but they have forgotten that in time past, we’ve had a lot of youths who had been heads of state in this country. We’ve had youths at 29 years who were ministers, we’ve had youths at 29 years who were presidents, ” he added.