The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday alleged that the Naira scarcity is an artificial creation by some individuals to cause violence, in a bid to achieve the desire to impose an interim national government.
Tinubu, who said the 2023 presidential election would liberate Nigerians, urged registered voters to ensure they got their permanent voter cards to vote for the APC and defy all odds to cast their votes for the party.
“They want to hoard the PVCs; don’t allow them to do so,” he added.
The APC presidential candidate, who spoke in Yoruba during the party’s presidential mega rally in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, urged the residents to come out en-masse to cast their votes for APC candidates, adding that it is the turn of the Yoruba to produce the President of the country.
He told the gathering, “This election is yours. It is a vote for good fortune. It is the election you will use to liberate yourselves. Ekiti, Yoruba, whose turn is it? Relax, this election is yours. I have what to live with, but there are many unemployed Nigerians who graduated from school.
“Ekiti people are known for good and quality education, but they want to turn us into servants. They got it wrong, we are not servants. They locked up money. Trek to your polling units, vote and stay with your vote.
“I beg you in the name of God, the situation on the ground does not need violence, do not fight with them, exercise patience. Those who created Naira scarcity and locked up your money are the same ones who will unlock the money.
“They created Naira scarcity to provoke you to anger so that there can be violence, so that there will be disruption and so that they can postpone the election and impose an interim government. Exercise patience, even if they cause rain to fall on that day, we will vote and we win.”