Buba Galadima, a frontrunner from the North, has claimed {that a} governor who remains to be in workplace hid N22 billion in previous naira notes.

The revelation got here throughout an interview on Belief TV with the previous Nationwide Secretary of the now-defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.

Galadima supplied a solution to a query relating to the contentious redesign coverage of the naira that was carried out by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, CBN.

The chief of the New Nigeria Peoples Get together (NNPP) stated that the celebration had already taken a powerful stance on the controversial challenge.

Galadima stated that the CBN Act says that if the naira must be modified, it ought to be executed in not less than six months.

Based on the statesman, the federal government justified its approval of the strategy by saying that many individuals had stockpiled the foreign money at house.

“I agree. I do know, from intelligence, that there’s a governor within the Northwestern half that has about N22 billion of the previous foreign money.

“Sure, N22 billion stacked in his home as I communicate to you. He is aware of himself. And the safety businesses know,” he emphasised.

Galadima stated that the businesses could be ignoring him as a result of “they could be in the identical membership or they could be defending him.”

The politician additionally stated that the lure is for the governor to go change the cash that was “collected by means of corruption.”

A fortnight in the past, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele stated that the previous N200, N500, and N1000 payments had been introduced again as a result of individuals had saved N2.7 trillion of their houses earlier than the Buhari authorities took over.