Kano State Government and Islamic clerics from Tijjaniyya, Qadiriyya, and Izala sects in the state have called on the Federal Government to extend the deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the redesigning of Naira notes due to the unavailability of the new notes for the people.
The call was in a resolution of the meeting, which also had in attendance the Governor of the State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, his deputy and APC Gubernatorial Candidate, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, his running mate, Hon. Murtala Sule Garo, APC Chairman Abdullahi Abbas, and the Islamic clerics, at the Government House on Thursday.
According to a statement issued by Hassan Musa Fagge, Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor of Kano State, the resolution noted that economic activities have been paralyzed in Kano, the commercial nerve center of northern Nigeria, due to the hardship caused by the shortage of the new Naira notes in Kano, the commercial nerve center of the country.
The meeting therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari, out of his magnanimity, to consider the suffering caused to people in the state due to the shortage of the new Naira notes and extend the deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
