Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai; President Muhammadu Buhari
The Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, said the order by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on the deadline for old notes “is a disobedience to the Supreme Court Order.”
The governor asked residents of the state to continue using the old naira notes.
His directive is coming after Buhari said in his national broadcast earlier in the day that both the N1,000 and N500 old naira notes are no longer legal tender.
However, in his broadcast to the people of Kaduna State, El-rufai urged them to stand up strongly for democracy, peace and national unity.
“It is also quite revealing that the Federal Government and its agencies not only disobeyed the February 8 ruling by continuing to say the February 10 deadline stands. It is shocking to see the blatant violation of the subsisting and continuing order of the Supreme Court that all the old and new notes should continue to be legal tender until it gives judgment in the case filed by the Kaduna State Government along with several others.”
El-Rufai said, “The address by the President earlier this morning limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200 amounts to total disregard and disobedience of the ruling of February 8 which was extended further yesterday by the Supreme Court. The misguided action of the Attorney-General to mislead the President into engaging in this public violation of the order of the highest court of the land shows how desperate the policy architects are to cause national chaos, by showing open contempt for the judiciary.”
