Congress , Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he would bring the Naira at par with the Dollar if voted in as the next president of Nigeria next year.
Essien mocked the APC presidential candidate for making such claims when he cannot help the current APC leadership under President Buhari to turn around the failing economy for Nigerians.Chief Essien, a two-term member of the National Assembly, stated that such a campaign talk was only ‘meant for the marines’, as the APC presidential candidate has no magic wand to turn the Naira around to equate in value with the Dollar.
He said,”Tinubu made this kind of statement in 2015, when he was campaigning for Muhammadu Buhari, seven years along the line, he couldn’t show the president how to appreciate the Naira, why then should anybody with knowledge of how the global economy works, believe him. “That’s how it started in 2014, leading to the opposition against President Goodluck Jonathan on how the Naira will be at par with the USA Dollar if Buhari is voted to power.”