In the same vein, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200, describing it as a total disregard of the Supreme Court on the matter.
He noted that the misguided action of the Attorney-General of the Federation to mislead the President into engaging in such 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.
In a broadcast to the people of Kaduna State, Governor El-Rufai expressed concern that the peaceful co-existence as a state, and a nation, is being placed under deliberate danger using the intentional combination of fuel and cash supply disruptions.
He accused those in the corridors of power of using the instrumentality of the Federal Government and the President to truncate the nation’s democracy because they had personally lost out.
He further stressed that, those behind the naira re-design policy were massively deploying resources and tools to defeat the political party that gave them the platform to serve the country just because they could not impose the candidates of their choice.
Governor El-Rufai, however, appealed to residents of the state to remain calm and peaceful, and support the lawful means being utilized to solve the problems and assured them that they would not lose their money in old notes.
