Afrigather A former Nationwide Authorized Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire, on Friday stated some governors elected on the platform of the ruling social gathering are insisting on the utilization of the outdated N500 and N1,000 notes as a authorized tender as a result of “they’re out to deceive the unwary potential voters into accepting the already stocked outdated notes of their custody for the aim of shopping for voters’ conscience”.
POLITICS NIGERIA stories that Banire, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and one-time Atmosphere Commissioner in Lagos State, due to this fact requested ‘potential voters who should take cash to both insist on the actual authorized tender, as pronounced by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN), or some other forex acceptable to them’.
He wrote on his recognized Twitter deal with: “Quite a lot of us may not perceive why the Governors are insisting on the outdated notes being authorized tender.
“Actually it isn’t that they don’t know that they don’t have the ability to declare what’s authorized tender neither did they not know that don’t lack the capability to implement any Supreme Court docket judgment.
The key is just that they’re out to deceive the unwary potential voters into accepting the already stocked outdated notes of their custody for the aim of shopping for voters’ conscience.
— Muiz Banire (@Mbanire) February 17, 2023
“The key is just that they’re out to deceive the unwary potential voters into accepting the already stocked outdated notes of their custody for the aim of shopping for voters’ conscience.
“My counsel is that potential voters who should take cash ought to both insist on the actual authorized tender as pronounced by the apex Financial institution or some other forex acceptable to them.
“Nonetheless I admonish that your conscience just isn’t value shopping for however if you happen to should gather the cash which largely is stolen from the treasury, insist on authorized tender and nonetheless vote your conscience. That is a part of our management marketing campaign management sequence.”
Banire’s remark comes in opposition to the backdrop of the stance of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State who dared President Muhammadu Buhari on the naira redesign coverage, saying the outdated notes stay authorized tender within the state.
In his national broadcast on Thursday morning, Buhari declared that outdated N500 and N1000 had been not legitimate.
However in his statewide deal with on Thursday evening, El-Rufai stated the notes stay authorized tender till the Supreme Court docket of Nigeria decides in any other case.
His ideas had been echoed by most loyalists of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC.
