I had read at the time that there was a constriction in money supply around the time of the election and fresh bank notes distributed to buy votes. Similar to how the british hidden hand that print the money for a lot of countries up near blackpool apparently, handed over print runs of The Libyan government cash to the the barbary-pirate rebels in benghazi.
Money can buy you thugs eh!
This report goes into the manipulation in some detail, an interesting read, so they restored the original paper currency after the election, the technique worked and the new president can appear a saviour eh! classic!
How a CBDC Created Chaos and Poverty in Nigeria
https://www.infowars.com/posts/how-a-cbdc-created-chaos-and-poverty-in-nigeria/
I think the technique they are currently using here in Britain is a sly one through the networks that operate the ATM’s making it hard to find an ATM that is working, and taking money out at another banks ATM may incur a charge from your bank messages on those ATM’s, not any actual useful information after you have inserted your card they know your bank so the ATM should be able to tell you truthfully if your bank will charge a fee or not, not the unanswered question that they use currently.
So by restricting convenience of withdrawing cash (by potential cash user having to hunt for a working free cash machine) you can use that same card contactless at the checkout eh! sounds like a cunning winning strategy to me!
The government announced some promise about access to cash legislation, I read the page and the gov.uk page finishes with the caveat – if they get round to it “if parliamentary time allows” eh!