The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has “evil people” to use him (Buhari) to fight and defeat the political party that gave him the platform to serve Nigeria.
El-Rufai said the ‘evil people’ are using the president as an instrument to defeat the APC after they failed in their bid to force their own candidate on the party during the June 2022 primaries.
The governor alleged that the said people were massively deploying resources and tools to defeat the APC in the forthcoming presidential election
He made the allegations while addressing the people of Kaduna over the scarcity of the new high-value naira.
It would be recalled that President Buhari on Wednesday ordered that the old N200 notes be re-introduced into circulation and be made to coexist with the new notes till April 10.
El-Rufai noted that the Buhari government disobeyed the February 8th ruling of the Supreme Court by continuing to say the February 10 deadline stands, adding that “It is shocking to see the blatant violation of the subsisting and continuing order of the Supreme Court that ALL the old and new notes should continue to be legal tender until it gives judgment in the case filed by the Kaduna State Government along with several others.”
He said, “The address by the President earlier this morning limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200 amounts to total disregard and disobedience of the ruling of February 8th which was extended further yesterday by the Supreme Court.
“The misguided action of the Attorney-General to mislead the President into engaging in this public violation of the order of the highest court of the land shows how desperate the policy architects are to cause national chaos, by showing open contempt for the judiciary.”
The Governor recalled that the Federal Government had made an offer to the agitating governors to accept the circulation of only the N200 notes as a way to stay out of court, but they rejected the offer, insisting the court ruling must be obeyed.
He claimed that, “These evil people using the instrumentality of the Federal Government and the President as convenient covers are willing to truncate our democracy because they have personally lost out.
“They are massively deploying resources and tools to defeat the political party that gave us the platform to serve the country just because they could not impose the candidates of their choice. Let us not help them.
