Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, says those behind
the annulment of the June 12 presidential election in 1993, are seeking to
scuttle the forthcoming elections with the cash policy.
The governor was reacting to a high court judgement that
temporarily restricted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from extending the
deadline for the use of old naira notes.
The apex bank fixed February 10 as the deadline.
In a statement on Tuesday, Muhammad Garba, Kano commissioner
for information, quoted Ganduje as saying that the “unknown” parties who
secured the interim injunction are using the court to impose hardship on
Nigerians.
“The group’s latest
attempt is camouflaging in unknown political parties through the use of legal
instruments to further impose unfeasible cash policy that is taking its toll on
the masses in the country,” the governor said.
“The unknown political parties are also allegedly colluding
with the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to execute
this fiendish scheme.
“It is unfortunate that the CBN and its collaborators are
insisting unnecessarily on the imposition of an unreasonable time frame for the
old naira notes to cease to be legal tender, in total refutation of the obvious
national dearth in the necessary technological infrastructure for the process.
“The rigid insistence
on the implementation of these harsh, inhuman, and insensitive cash policies to
a point of neglecting their widespread rejection by the vast majority of
Nigerians including the National Assembly and all state governors, is an
ominous agenda for the undermining of the nation and consequent scurrying of a
smooth transition to a freely and fairly elected successive administration.”
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