Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State alleged that Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, misled the president into accepting the naira redesign policy.
He alleged that Emefiele planned to make the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, win the 2023 general election with the naira redesign policy, stating that the PDP is behind it.
He said this on Friday while briefing journalists after the Supreme Court ruled that the old naira note remains legal tender until 31st, December 2023.
El-Rufai said “First let me say that this is a policy of the PDP. Emefiele was appointed Central Bank governor by the PDP originally.
“So let’s not forget where he came from and he is the one that put this policy together to help the PDP win the 2023 general elections and deceived the president into thinking it is possible to withdraw two trillion nairas from circulation and reprint everything in three months.
“No country in the world history has done it. He deceived the president and gave the president wrong information and the attorney general.”
On Friday, Governors Nasir @elrufai, Yahaya Bello, and Bello Mutawalle witnessed the ruling of the Supreme Court which upheld the claims of the State Govts against the FG and declared the cashless policy invalid.
