Obaseki to voters: Collect APC’s money, vote PDP

Former Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has urged the electorate to collect “stolen money” from candidates vying for political office on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election.

Obaseki enjoined the voters to vote for the PDP the same way they did in the 2020 governorship election in Edo State.

The governor said this during the inauguration of the Edo State chapter of the PDP Women Campaign Council at the party’s presidential campaign secretariat in Benin, the state capital on Wednesday.

“APC has stolen our money and wants to use it to impose themselves on Nigerians come 2023 general election.

“They have stocked up a lot and want to bring the money. Don’t be afraid, collect the money and vote them out like you did in Edo in the 2020 governorship election,” Governor Obaseki stated.

He further described the proposed plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign naira notes as political, saying the move was a ploy by the APC-led Federal Government to sway voters ahead of the 2023 general election.

Obaseki said the redesign of Nigeria’s currency should not be a priority when the majority of citizens are suffering from hunger, poverty, and economic hardship.

“They say we should all bring our naira and give it to them because they want to change it for us. Is that our priority now? Does changing of currency reduce the price of food in the market? They say they want to change our currency and dollars are going higher every day. We can’t even see dollars again.

“I am an economist and I can tell you categorically that this policy by the CBN and Federal Government has no basis in Nigeria’s economy. There is no reason to do this; the move is purely political as there is no urgency in changing our currency.

“The urgency is on how to get food for our citizens to remove starvation and hunger from the land. The urgency is on how to maintain discipline in our monetary policy so that we can manage our foreign exchange rate because we are import-dependent.

“We can’t allow those managing our country (APC) to continue because if we allow the APC government to continue, the country will fail as the country is already failing. God sees how people are suffering in this country and will not allow them to manage Nigeria again,” the governor said.

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