New Naira Notes: APC Calls For Malami, Emefiele’s Resignation For Misleading President Buhari

North-west chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for the resignation of the Attorney General of the Federal (AGF) cum Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and the Governor of Central Bank (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, for allegedly misleading President Muhammadu Buhari over the naira redesigning policy.

The ruling party through a statement issued on Friday by the National Vice Chairman, North-West, Dr. Salihu Lukman, noted that the call for their resignation became imperative following the verdict of the Supreme Court that declared the federal government’s cashless policy as unconstitutional.

Dr Salihu said it was also unfortunate that President Muhammadu Buhari could be misled into such acts of illegality and abuse of executive powers as pronounced by the Apex Court.

The APC stalwart said, given the injurious nature of the consequences of the cashless policy of the federal government as was implemented thus far and the damage of the Supreme Court ruling, Buhari, Emefiele and Malami must take personal responsibility for the act of illegality by the federal government.

Lukman emphasised that in advanced democracies, public offices who commit such acts of illegality voluntarily resign from their appointments.

“Therefore, if indeed, the cashless policy of the federal government was supposedly designed to conform with extant legal provisions of the Nigerian Federation, now that it turned out in the direct opposite, both the CBN Governor, Mr. Emefiele and the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Malami should accept the limitations of both their knowledge of the law and commitment to democracy by resigning from their respective offices forthwith,” according to him.

The party chieftain, therefore, commended Governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Yahaya Bello (Kogi) and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State for their courage and initiative to challenge the action of the federal government in the Supreme Court.