Fly Air Peace: Omokri Lists 16 Things Nigerians Must Do to Keep Naira Below 1300 Per Dollar

• Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has called on Nigerians to patronise the goods and services provided by fellow countrymen
• Omokri made the call while reiterating that the naira has remained below N1300 per dollar at the exchange rate, as against the speculation that it would go to N2000 per dollar
• The ex-presidential aide then urged that those who still hope that the dollar would rise against themselves would soon blame themselves when Dangote and Port Harcourt refineries started supplying fuel to Nigerians

Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, has urged Nigerians to patronise Nigerian brands to continue sustaining the growing naira’s strength against the dollar in the exchange rate market.

The former presidential spokesperson maintained that this was the only way to keep the naira rate to the dollar dropping, adding that today is April 5 and that the naira has remained N1300 to $1 as against the speculation that the exchange rate was going to be N2000 per dollar.

Omokri explains how the naira can maintain below N1300 strength
Photo Credit: Reno OmokriSource: Twitter

Omokri: Those hoarding dollar would blame themselves

Omokri, in a tweet on Friday, April 5, commended himself and others who have engaged in #GrowNairaBuyNaija campaign for shaming the market speculators who have predicted that the exchange rate would soon be N2000 to a dollar.

He then called on those who still hoard the dollars in their savings with the hope that it would soon rise against the naira to have a rethink, adding that the earlier, the better for them.

The former presidential aide maintained that the dollar would still further fall to the naira when Dangote and Port Harcourt refineries started selling and distributing fuel to Nigerian consumers.

Naira/Dollar: List of Nigerian brands to patronise

See the list of the goods and services Omokri urged Nigerians to start patronizing:

1. Call with Glo
2. Drive Innoson or Nord
3. Build with Dangote and BUA
4. Eat breakfast with Nasco
5. Lunch and dinner with grown in Nigeria rice
6. Make jollof rice with Erisco tomato paste
7. Go on dates at Tantalisers and Suya spots
8. Drink Zobo
9. Celebrate with palm wine
10. Fly Air Peace over Air France, KLM, or Lufthansa
11. Shop at local markets
12. Eat cassava bread over foreign wheat bread
13. Watch Enyimba and Kano Pillars
14. See Nollywood movies at Silverbird
15. Stream Nigerian music
16. Wear aso oke, agbada, babanriga, or isi agu

See the tweet here:

Source: TheTalk.NG

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