The crisis rocking the Arewa
Youths Assembly took a turn for the worse on Thursday, with the sacking of the
Speaker of the Assembly, Mohammed Danlami.
A section of the assembly on
Thursday, dissociated the group from comments made by its former Speaker about
the economic policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari.
They equally announced Danlami’s
removal from his leadership position and in his place, Tahir Azare, was named
as new Speaker.
Azare alleged that his
predecessor was sacked for using the group’s platform to promote a devious
political plot to threaten Nigeria’s security and economy.
The former Speaker had at a press
conference on Tuesday, called for the sack of the Governor of the Central Bank
for formulating economic politics that have increased poverty among Nigerians.
Danlami said, “We stand firmly by
our words at the Arewa Youth Assembly asking Mr Emefiele to resign his position
as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is necessary because every
point raised against Mr Emefiele is factual and verifiable.
“No amount of sponsored damage control can
proffer solutions to many economic woes an average Nigeria is subjected to
daily, but will rather ignite the anger of the masses, who are now finding it
extremely difficult to even feed their families.
“It is an open fact that the
naira was ₦170 against the dollar before Mr Emefiele’s emergence as the
Governor of the CBN. But today, due to his weak policies, it is ₦570 against a
dollar and still counting.”
While dissociating the group from
Danlami’s comments, Azare said, “We had asked ourselves, which Emefiele is Mr.
Salihu Danlami talking about? Is it the CBN Governor who deployed over N756bn
to 3.7 million farmers cultivating over 4.6 million hectares of farmland under
the Anchor Borrowers Programme?
“Or was it the same man who
provided N23bn in relief materials to Covid-19 affected households and set up
39 isolation centres across Nigeria?
“We urge members of the public to
beware of any information that comes from Danlami as such statements do not
come from the Assembly and do not represent our views about the country, the
CBN, the nation’s economy and President Buhari’s government’s economic agenda.”
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