Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker of the House of Representatives, has attributed the current hardship occasioned by fuel and naira scarcity to “elements” bent on scuttling APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu’s victory at the February 25 poll.

Mr Gbajabiamila stated this in Lagos on Tuesday during the launching of the second phase of a transport initiative called ‘Gbaja Ride’ for his Surulere constituents. The 35 low-fare buses will ply different routes in Surulere and its environs.

“As your representative and speaker, I have a good understanding of the current hardships and discomfort being faced by many Nigerians, without exception to my constituents,” Mr Gbajabiamila explained. “The lower legislative chamber under my leadership has been on the side of the people, working tirelessly to rescue them from these difficulties. I am glad that the judiciary has also confirmed our position on the implementation of the policy of naira redesign.”

He explained that the new naira banknotes policy was a well-thought-out one, which had unfortunately been hijacked and politicised, alleging that some elements created a crisis around the policy to stop Mr Tinubu from becoming the next president.

Mr Gbajabiamila said the plot seemed to be failing as Nigerians still keep faith with the APC and Mr Tinubu despite the chaos following the naira scarcity.

“Nobody can convince me that it is not a plot to stop Asiwaju from becoming the president of this country. But I am glad that our God is a wonderful being as the plot these people sat together to hatch, he has intervened,” said Mr Gbajabiamila.

He added, “I have followed the campaign team to the East, North and everywhere with Asiwaju, and I doff my hat for Nigerians.”

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So Tinubu is relying on vote buying to win.... Kai, what an insult to the sensibilities of Nigeria.

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Buhari is the architect of this currency swap problem and it is causing the same untold hardship today that it caused in 1984 when people were committing suicide because of it and when a high ranking minister was sacked for simply begging Buhari not to go ahead with the policy.

Buhari is notorious for being a poor planner and for being extremely incompetent at executing policies.

We saw it with his poor implementation of the National Identification Number system where millions of Nigerians were besieging registration centres

We saw it with his poor implementation of the BVN where millions of Nigerians were sleeping in banking halls to get their BVN numbers.

We saw it with his poor implementation of SIM card registration where millions of Nigerians scrambled to save their lines from being blocked.


And now we're watching his utter incompetence unfold with the poor implementation of a completely unnecessary currency swap just a few weeks to a general election.

We haven't even mentioned the crippling fuel scarcity which is happening under his watch as a self appointed minister of petroleum. Let's see how APC goons will blame Emefiele for that as well.

I'm not saying Emefiele is a Saint. Personally if I keep wandering why he doesn't resign honourably. It's very possible Buhari is making it worth his while if you know what I mean😏

But if he was a rogue element like people are accusing him of being, then why hasn't Buhari sacked him? Buhari sacked Lawal Daura as head of the DSS and he sacked Ibrahim Lamorde and Ibrahim Magu as chairmen of the EFCC.

So why is Emefiele still keeping his job if he is implementing a different policy from what Aso Rock wants? If you have a working brain and you're not an APC member, I'm sure you know the answer to this question.