2023: ‘Desperate politicians behind CBN, DSS face-off’

A citizens-led anti-sabotage organisation, under the aegis of The Natives, has said some desperate politicians are responsible for the face-off between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) to sabotage the forthcoming general elections.

Addressing a joint press conference in Abuja with other Civil Society Organisations, youths groups, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), and Lawyers, among others, the leader of The Natives, Hon Smart Edwards, urged citizens to be weary of calculated plots targeted at igniting heat in the country by elements of confusion.

According to Edwards, “All agencies have their modus operandi guiding their operations.

“The CBN is insulated to be independent in developing its policies and so is the DSS empowered with capabilities to interrogate issues of concern, so also are the courts approachable in cases of infractions.”

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“The story of Nigeria is not all gloom today, our Air Force is making superior strides in the North-east and forests, the Military and Defence Intelligent forces are recovering lost grounds, peace is gradually returning to Nigeria and people are travelling the roads home for the holidays.

“The Kaduna trains have resumed and working, the East-West Road is almost completed, the security situation is improving, the NDDC Board is reconstituted, our Naira is slightly recovering, our elections are around the corner, politicians have come to their seasons, Nigerians must come to their senses.

“Indeed, politicians can be mischievous, I mean the youths population are the largest voters in this country, particularly the students, and rather than politicians and political parties reaching out to them with their well-defined manifestos and water-tight integrity-based assurances of a visionary government and campaigns that should rest on their records, so as to gain their acceptance, they are busy sponsoring chaos.

“Let it be made abundantly clear that as a citizens-led anti-sabotage organisation, we are fully motivated and committed to free and fair elections.

“We are fully aware of saboteurs in nocturnal meetings, preparing to scandalise and blackmail persons of high reputation as a precursor to sponsor protests across the country, this has already failed because we will resist.”