Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has said comments made by Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State governor, on the naira redesign policy are treasonable.
The Kaduna governor had in a state broadcast on Thursday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari on his directive to re-introduce just the old N200 banknote as part of measures to curb the cash crunch in the country.
El-Rufai, who said the old N1,000 and N500 are still legal tenders in his state, stated that the aim of the naira redesign is to scuttle the general elections in order to allow an interim government led by a retired army general
However, speaking during a press conference in Abuja on Friday, according to Channels Television, Baba-Ahmed said the governor’s comment, amounts to treason and wondered why the presidency is silent
He argued that there is only one authority in Nigeria which is the President and wonders how a sub-national can counter the directive of the President.
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