Legal luminary and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ozekhome, said both President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state are playing politics with the controversy surrounding the naira redesing policy.
The senior lawyer made this known while speaking as a guest on Arise TV on Friday, February 17, adding that the ruling party where Buhari and El-Rufai belonged is experiencing an “internal implosion.”
In a national broadcast on Thursday, February 16, President Buhari declared that 500 and 1000 notes have ceased to be legal tenders.
The president also directed the Cenral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to recirculate only 200 notes to the public to ease the hardship currently experienced by the masses.
Governor El-Rufai, countering the president’s position, held a state broadcast where he directed the people of Kaduna state continue spending 1000 and 5000 notes pending the Supreme Court’s directive next week.
Ozekhome likened the confrontation as a “fuji house of commotion”, which may jeopardise the chance of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the forthcoming election.
