Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, president of Nigeria's ABCO, warned that spending politicians ahead of the 2019 General Election could endanger Naira's stability. Gwadabe announced to the news agency Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the inclination to collect dollars, consumed during political campaigns, was not a new political nation of the nation.
“Political spending may affect exchange rate stability in 2018.
“Electioneering starts early this time and the tendency for people to hoard the dollar now, to be spent during the campaigns, was not new,’’ Gwadabe said.
The ABCON chief, therefore, called on the regulatory authorities and security operatives to ensure that currency hoarders and speculators do not leverage on the 2019 elections to erode the gains recorded in the nation’s foreign exchange market.
Gwadabe noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had spent about eight billion dollars in a series of interventions at the FOREX market, leading to the flattening of rates across board.
According to him, Bureau De Change (BDC) operators, as critical stakeholders in the FOREX market, are committed to playing by the rules in ensuring that the Naira remained stable.
NAN reports that since February, when the Naira exchanged at N520 to the dollar, the CBN had intervened aggressively to ensure it remained stable at about N360 to the dollar. #Africa ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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