Kaduna State Governor Nasir El‑Rufai said on Thursday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s order setting a deadline for the withdrawal of old naira notes “is a disobedience to the Supreme Court order.” El‑Rufai urged residents of the state to continue using the old notes, despite Buhari’s earlier national broadcast declaring the N1,000 and N500 old naira notes no longer legal tender.
In his address to the people of Kaduna State, El‑Rufai called for a strong stand for democracy, peace and national unity. He pointed out that the federal government and its agencies had ignored the February 8 ruling by insisting that the February 10 deadline still applied. “It is shocking to see the blatant violation of the subsisting and continuing order of the Supreme Court, which states that all old and new notes should remain legal tender until a judgment is issued in the case filed by the Kaduna State Government and several others,” he said.
El‑Rufai further criticized the President’s statement limiting the legal‑tender status of old notes to amounts of N200, describing it as “total disregard and disobedience of the February 8 ruling, which the Supreme Court extended further yesterday.” He accused the Attorney‑General of misleading the President and contributing to a public breach of the highest court’s order, suggesting that the policy architects were desperate to create national chaos by showing open contempt for the judiciary.
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