The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, today, said that President Muhammadu Buhari has not acted in breach on the case instituted at the Supreme Court by some state governors over the naira swap deadline.  

Malami who revealed this while fielding questions from newsmen during the weekly ministerial briefing at the presidential villa said as far as the rule of law is concerned, there are many options available to explore.

The president had on Thursday 16th of February in a national broadcast directed the CBN to re-circulate ONLY the old 200 denomination of the naira, thereby extending the validity of the notes for another 60 days to April 10 2023, in contrary to the supreme court’s pronouncement on the matter.

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Our Correspondent, Raliat Adenekan reports that the AGF, while responding to the issue of whether the Governors’ contrary directives in their states is an act of treason, said it will be investigated by the relevant security and intelligence agencies who are in charge of such a matter. 

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Recall that many governors led by Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, had openly denigrated the Buhari policy, asking their citizens not to comply with the expiration of the legality of the old N500 and N1000.