El-Rufai’s Comments On Naira Redesign Treasonable – Datti Baba-Ahmed

Vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Datti Baba-Ahmed has described as treasonable the comments of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of of Kaduna state on the naira redesign policy following the national broadcast of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Baba-Ahmed stated this while speaking during a press conference in Abuja on Friday.

The LP vice presidential candidate, who said the governor’s comment, amounts to treason, wondered why the presidency is silent on the matter.

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According to Baba-Ahmed, there is only one authority in Nigeria which is the President.

He said he wondered how a sub-national can counter the directive of the President.

Recall that El-Rufai in a state broadcast on Thursday faulted the President 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, said the old N1,000 and N500 are still legal tenders in Kaduna state.

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He claimed 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.

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