The Labour Party (LP) vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed has said comments made by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufa’i, on the naira redesign policy following the nationwide broadcast of President Muhammadu Buhari are treasonable.
El-Rufa’i, during a state broadcast on Thursday, faulted the President on his directive to re-introduce just the old N200 banknote as part of measures to curb the cash crunch in the country.
The Governor, who said the old N1,000 and N500 are still legal tenders in his state, stated that the naira redesign aims to scuttle the general elections in order to allow an interim government led by a retired army general
However, speaking during a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the LP vice-presidential candidate said the governor’s comment, amounts to treason and wondered why the presidency is silent
He argued that there is only one authority in Nigeria which is the President and wondered how a sub-national can counter the directive of the President.
El-Rufa’i had alleged that the development was meant to ensure that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other candidates of the party lose.
He claimed that those who lost out in the party’s primaries were behind the plot.
