The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, took a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress over the naira redesign policy, asking the party to take responsibility for its failure and hardship it brought upon the masses.

He said the policy failings have led to upheavals in different parts of the country in which lives were lost and properties destroyed.

There are various reports that the growing anger over the cash crisis resulting from CBN currency redesign policy boiled over on Wednesday as protesting customers torched banks and destroyed ATM in Edo and Delta states.

The protests equally spread to Oyo, Ondo, Benue and Kwara states as residents vented their anger over the scarcity of cash which had made life unbearable for many Nigerians.

But Atiku, in a statement said it was surprising that the ruling party is trying to apportion blame to others rather than itself over the crisis and that it may be coming on the heels of the currency swap, but it is pertinent to remind us that it is a culmination of the frustrations of Nigerians arising from the maladministration of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the past 7 years plus.

The current crisis, a fallout of the policy of the ruling party’s redesign of the naira, is only the tipping point. The least the ruling APC can do is to take responsibility for its own policy and the challenges that have followed its implementation, even as we collectively work at addressing those challenges.