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El-Rufai dares Buhari on old Naira notes

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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has dared President Muhammadu Buhari on the naira redesign policy, saying the old notes remain legal tender in the state.

In his national broadcast early Thursday, Buhari declared that the old N500 and N1000 were no longer valid.

He had asked Nigerians to take them to the Central Bank and other designated places.

But in his statewide address on Thursday night, El-Rufai said the notes remain legal tender until the Supreme Court of Nigeria decides otherwise.

“For the avoidance of doubt, all the old and new notes shall remain in use as legal tender in Kaduna State until the Supreme Court of Nigeria decides otherwise.”

“I therefore appeal to all residents of Kaduna State to continue to use the old and new notes side by side without any fear.

“The Kaduna State Government and its agencies shall seal any facility that refuses to accept the old notes as legal tender and prosecute the owners.

“If need be, we shall take further consequential actions according to the law.”

“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 February 8th ruling, 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.”

“The decision to recognize only N200 as legal tender until April that the President announced this morning was offered to the state governments as part of proposals for an out-of-court settlement three days ago.

The Federal Government asserted that this was offered because all the “old” N1,000 and N500 notes had been destroyed.

“We rejected the offer and proved to the officials that not a single higher denomination note had been destroyed.

“We also believe that circulating N200 alone is inadequate in alleviating the suffering that we see every day.”

“We insisted that all the components of the Supreme Court order be complied with,” he said.

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