s the nation’s currency exchanges at N400 to the US dollar on Sunday,
Billionaire business mogul has said that if the Buhari-led federal
government consults him, he could restore the nation’s currency to an
exchange rate of N200 to one US Dollar within one month.
Speaking on a Channels Television politics programme on Sunday,
billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Services
Ltd., Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah,
has advised the Federal Government to consult some Nigerians who can
halt the free fall of the Naira which is affecting the nation’s
economy.The Naira currently exchanges at N400 to the US dollar.
The Publisher of The Authority newspapers, said that if the President
Buhari-le federal government consults him, he could restore the
nation’s currency to an exchange rate of N200 to one US Dollar within
one month, thereby arresting the slide in the Naira which is virtually
crippling the economy.
The Chairman of Ifeanyi Ubah
Football Club, however did not say how he was going to bring the Naira
down to an exchange rate of 200 per dollar, but said the government
could seize everything he owns if he failed to do this within one month,
if given the mandate.
Chief Ubah also affirmed that he was not involved in any way
whatsoever in the $2.3 billion Dasukigate arms deal that involved the
former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki, adding that he was
not involved in the politics of contracts and has never done any
government contracts, whether at the Federal, state or local government
levels.
“I am highly misunderstood, sometimes controversial. But I have never
done any government contracts. I did not collect any money from
Government; I do not have an oil block – and I have not asked for one.
“I did not know Dasuki. TAN never received money from Dasuki or the
People’s Democratic Party. We did what we did in the interest of the
nation and for posterity.
“I’m a politician with a mind-set of making life worth living for the
people, when issues seem to be getting out of hand. So TAN has no hand
in whatever that has to do with the arms deal fund.”
He said following the controversies trailing the #Dasukigate, it has
become necessary for him to extricate himself from allegations that
himself and the non-governmental organisation, Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), were in anyway involved in the sharing of
the arms deal money.
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