El-Rufai, Abiodun, Sanwo-Olu, others sue FG once more at Supreme Court docket over Buhari’s broadcast

The Governors of Kaduna, Ogun, and Lagos alongside seven different states have approached the Supreme Court docket to abrogate the insistence of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Authorities on persevering with the implementation of the money swap coverage towards the prevailing court docket pronouncement.

This motion of the governors turns into the newest in efforts to salvage the nation’s constitutional order and respect for the rule of legislation because it continues to dwindle beneath the highhanded Muhammadu Buhari regime.

Within the go well with marked SC/CV/162/2023, the plaintiffs by way of their counsel, A.J. Owonikoko, are praying the apex court docket to declare that Mr Buhari’s state handle, which aired final Thursday, is unconstitutional.

Within the face of brewing anarchy which has rocked totally different cities throughout the nation and untold financial hardship for a lot of Nigerians, Mr Buhari disclosed in his handle that his regime and the CBN is not going to rescind its place to take outdated N1,000 and N500 notes out of circulation.

The president’s assertion, based on analysts, was an insult to the nation’s highest court docket and a disregard for the nation’s democratic order.

In a go well with introduced by state governors towards the regime, the Supreme Court docket earlier dominated that every one events ought to keep the established order till the go well with is resolved and that the outdated N1,000, N500, and N200 notes ought to stay authorized tender.

The suing governors described Mr Buhari’s pronouncement as an “unconstitutional overreach and usurpation of the judicial energy.”

“Opposite to the order of the Honourable Court docket, the substantive 1st defendant by way of the President of the Federation, and its agent, the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, have repeatedly launched statements that the outdated Naira Notes are not authorized tender, therefore leading to deceptive most of the people on what the established order to be complied with, pendente lite, ought to be,” the go well with learn.