Following the extension of the deadline for the phasing out of the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has stated that he had been requesting it for days before it was granted.
Tinubu while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for the extension in a town hall meeting in Benin City, Edo State added that he ran back and forth over the issue.
He stated that he kept calling the president for an extension.
“We have been on this for three to four days, and suddenly today, when the President said okay out of great respect he will consider our request for an extension, we were happy.
“I was running back and forth on this and calling him, so that is what we have been doing.
“Hopefully, even though we didn’t get all that we wanted, we got an extension by a number of days.
“Some of our cousins, our wives selling garden eggs, carrots, roasted corn, they need money, and they need Naira.
“In the process, if Naira is cancelled the way it is and we fail to intervene, we have failed in our duties”, Tinubu said.
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