The Supreme Court on Friday rendered the naira redesign of the Central Bank of Nigeria invalid. This is at least from the point of the deadline on the validity of the old notes, which the court extended to December 31.
Meanwhile, star artiste, Peter Okoye, is one of the people who had supported the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, saying the policy was to check the excesses of the APC in the then upcoming presidential election.
Now that the court has quashed Emefiele’s policy, whatever would be the feeling of the artiste?
In the heat of the campaign, Okoye had written the APC governors:
Dear APC Governors, are you telling us that hardship started in Nigeria when CBN redesigned the naira?
The same APC has put over 133 million Nigerians in multidimensional poverty in it 8 years.
Its just 5 days to the elections. What’s with the desperation?” he noted.
Dear APC Governors, we the Nigerian people are not complaining about the policy. As s matter of fact, we are so used to the hardship APC has brought upon us.
We actually stand with Buhari and Emefiele on the one. We still have #50, #100, and #200 notes in circulations! Desperados!”
APC Governors should stop using poor masses as an excuse and tell President Buhari the truth that they stashed money in higher denominations and they will turn to tissue papers if he insist the policy.
