A spokesman for the All-Progress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, said disobeying the Supreme Court’s order was an invitation that led to turmoil in Nigeria.
Festus Keyamo, in an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today program on Friday, reacted to the recent live broadcast of President Muhammadu Buhari, who asserted that the Central Bank’s decision The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the old banknotes was left in place, despite the Supreme Court’s suspension of the February 10 currency exchange deadline.
Following the request of the Kaduna State Attorney, Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN) sought to punish the federal government for failing to comply with an earlier order by the Supreme Court to suspend the money change deadline on February 10, the Court The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced a federal ban on February 8. The government and its agencies enforce a February 10 deadline for the use of N200, N500, and N1 banknotes. old .000.
But in a live broadcast, President Muhammadu Buhari said the policy was put in place to control money laundering, terrorism, and other evils that could hamper the economy.
Keyamo said,
“I think the president thought he is playing safe because he acknowledged in his speech that the matter is in court. Before the matter is decided so he is trying to bring a middle ground. The country is burning; there is riot everywhere.
“If I where to advise the president, I would advise him to comply strictly to the tenets of the order of the Supreme Court. All the notes should circulate for now. The old notes should circulate side by side with the new notes because that is the order of the Supreme Court.
“And by virtue of our constitution, all authorities in Nigeria must obey the orders of the Supreme Court; anything to the contrary is a dissent or anarchy. The day we begin to disobey the orders of the Supreme Court that is an invitation to intervention in our democracy, because the judiciary and the Supreme Court are the last bastion to defend our democracy.”
