The Presidency stated that the upcoming 2023 general elections will take place regardless of the controversies surrounding the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) naira swap policy.
Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, stated this in a statement made available to journalists on Friday.
President Buhari, according to Shehu, has no plans to extend his government beyond May 29, 2023, or to install an interim government.
“Let us clearly, specifically, and emphatically state that there is absolutely no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards an interim government, if not worse,” the statement says.
“the severing of democracy—democracy that he has helped to keep alive not only here at home, in West Africa, but across the continent.”
Shehu believes that talk of an interim government and a truncation of democracy is totally false.”
“Those who peddle it stand to gain nothing—nothing at all—except the creation of panic and incitement of the public against the federal government,” according to the statement.
However, the President’s spokesperson described the narrative as a dangerous dimension created by “people who are afraid of losing their elections.”
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