{"id":62477,"date":"2023-02-17T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T09:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62477"},"modified":"2023-02-17T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T09:33:16","slug":"naira-ganduje-says-buhari-wants-to-destroy-democracy-jigawa-also-defies-buhari-old-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62477","title":{"rendered":"Naira: Ganduje says Buhari wants to destroy democracy, Jigawa also defies Buhari on old notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u25aa\ufe0e House Speaker, Gbajabiamila, frowns at Buhari, CBN actions<\/h4>\n

The defiant language and actions of governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is rising in crescendo with Governor Umaru Ganduje accusing President Muhammadu Buhari and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of working to destroy the APC and democracy.<\/p>\n

Also, the Jigawa State Government, like Kaduna, says old naira notes remain legal tender in the state pending the judgment of the Supreme Court on the issue.<\/p>\n

State Commissioner for Information, Youths Sports and Culture Bala Ibrahim Mamsa in a statement, said \u201cJigawa State is among the states before the Supreme Court of Nigeria the CBN and the court has issued an order \u201c\u2026restraining the CBN from suspending or determining or ending on the 10th of February, 2023 the time frame within which the now older versions of the 200, 500 and 1000 denominations of the naira may no longer be legal tender pending the hearing and determination of the \u2026. Motion on notice\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The state government admonished citizens of the state to desist from disobeying the law and causing hardships to the people of the state, warning that it would take action against anyone found rejecting old Naira notes.<\/p>\n

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Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The government advised the general public to report any trader or business organisations refusing the notes as legal tender to the appropriate authorities.<\/p>\n

Late on Wednesday in Kano at a meeting with the Forum of Former Parliamentarians, North-West zone in Kano, Ganduje lamented, \u201cImagine someone\u00a0contesting without winning elections until\u00a0after a merger was formed. He won the election and\u00a0spent\u00a0four years and re-contested again and won. Now that he is about to go, he is doing nothing but destroy the party that elected him…<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is wrong with doing it (Naira swap policy) after elections? Why hasn\u2019t he (Godwin Emefiele) done this in the past seven years? What is the meaning of all\u00a0these?\u00a0This CBN governor is not a politician; he doesn\u2019t know anything about politics. How can a politician enjoy this policy?\u00a0Imagine how as a leader you watch banks engulfed by fire, if not that the democracy has decayed, will that be possible?<\/p>\n

\u201cHow is it possible when the World Bank said the policy is wrong, the IMF said it is wrong, other leaders said it is wrong, but you said you need seven days to think about it? The poor man selling vegetables will have his goods rotten (before the end of the thinking period), that is why I close down one supermarket for rejecting the old notes. The Supreme Court has said the old notes are still legal tender, that is why any bank that refuses to collect, I will revoke their certificate and\u00a0if they do that, they cannot work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ganduje in handshake with Buhari as other watch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ganduje, like el Rufai did in a video that went viral last week, disclosed that Tinubu would revoke the policy if he won the election, adding that the policy was not of the ruling\u00a0APC.<\/p>\n

Recalling how the election of late billionaire, Chief M.K.O. Abiola was truncated 30 years ago, Ganduje said: \u201cIt was like this at the time of SDP (Social Democratic Party) with the Association of Better Nigeria (ABN); the CBN governor is the ABN of this dispensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, this\u00a0is even\u00a0beyond not wanting someone to win the election; it is democracy itself they don\u2019t want. They\u00a0want\u00a0to set up an interim government committee like that of (Ernest) Shonekan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich credible politician do you think they can put to head such a committee? Except you just bring people that do not represent the masses but their families, those are the ones you can bring to form an interim government.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el Rufai, also took exception to the position of the President’s decision to re-circulate the old N200 notes instead of the note, N500 and N1000 notes, as ordered by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n