The Coalition of Northern Groups has described the response by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Supreme Court judgment on the old naira notes as deceptive. The president had in a statement issued recently by his Media Aide, Garba Shehu said, the CBN had no reason not to comply with court orders on the excuse of waiting for directives from the president.
But, the group in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, wondered why Buhari or the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele refused to address the nation on the new directive, the same way they did when they were imposing the policy on the nation. It noted that it was curious that days after the said directive by the president, the naira scarcity was showing no sign of abating.
The group says that instead, the situation is worsening by the day, as both the old and new notes are deliberately withheld by government.
The group stressed that rather, both the President and Emefiele only made clumsy, scanty ambiguous statements through their spokespersons. The group added that this explained why the banks resorted to issuing less than five thousand naira to customers with legitimate need for their own money as against the Supreme Court order that no president or any officer in government has the right to deny citizens access to their own money.
The northern group stressed that sadly, President Buhari was in the last lap of his tenure had allegedly chosen the path of dishonor, dictatorship, aristocracy and was bound to leave behind a very bad legacy to the nation.
It suggested that state governors should meet with the president-elect and fashion out a way out in order to halt the current national drift toward greater conflict.
