By Uzair Adam Imam
Few days to election and the remours that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was planning to shut down all e-transactions on Thursday have gone viral on social media.
However, the CBN has reacted in dismay to the widespread rumours in the early hours of Thursday on its official Facebook page.
The rumours said that the CBN planned to shut down all financial transactions from Thursday, 23rd to 27th of February.
Part of the remour instructed that, “Anyhow you can get money between today and tomorrow get it. Also whatever transfer you want to do, do it between today and tomorrow.
“As from Thursday, banks network will go off till Sunday or Monday so that politicians will not be able to transfer money to anybody for vote.
“So buy enough money and do your transfer now,” the false information said in part.
Meanwhile, the CBN also asked the general public to disregard the rumour while describing it as baseless and misleading.