The All Progressives Congress has called on the Attorney General of the Federation and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to respect the Supreme Court order of interim injunction on the Naira note redesign.
The resolution was made known to newsmen by the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu on Sunday.
Adamu spoke in Abuja following a meeting of Governors elected on the platform of the party and the National Working Committee in Abuja.
He said the closed door meeting also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in resolving issues caused by the new Naira note redesign and the cashless economy policy.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Supreme Court had in a ruling granted an interim injunction that the CBN and the Federal Government, represented by the AGF, should suspend the implementation of the February 10 deadline for the expiration of the legal tender status of the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes.
This, it said, should be pending the hearing and determination of a suit before it slated for February 22.
Buhari had however on February 16 announced that only the old N200 note would remain valid until April 10, while the old N500 and N1,000 notes had lost their legal tender status, contrary to the ruling of the apex court.
Adamu told newsmen: “Without prejudice or whatsoever to the case that is lying at the Supreme Court at this point in time, that has to do with the issue of currency re-design, we note very seriously that the programme and its implementation is causing tremendous difficulties to the people of Nigeria and to the national economy.
“That we urge the Attorney General of the Federation and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria to respect the Supreme Court order of interim injunction, which is still subsisting.
“That the meeting is urging his Excellency, President Buhari, to intervene in resolving issues that are causing this great difficulties to the economy.”
Adamu added that contrary to speculations, the party’s leadership and governors elected on its platform under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum were on the same page on this matter.
Also speaking, Governor Abubakar Badaru of Kebbi State and Chairman of the PGF, expressed satisfaction with the party’s ongoing presidential campaign across the country.
Badaru said he was very proud about the conduct of party’s members and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, adding that the governors and the party’s leadership are working in unity to achieve electoral victory.
He said: “The Director-General of the campaign and indeed governors and the party’s candidates across the country have been doing a tremendous job of mobilising the Nigerian populace.
“And we are very impressed with the support of the majority of Nigerians.”
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Governors of Kaduna, Kogi, Jigawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Plateau, Ekiti, Niger, Kebbi, Gombe, Lagos and Nasarawa States as well as the Deputy Governors of Imo and Katsina States were present at the meeting.
Tinubu also attended the meeting, which lasted for about three hours.