The Federal Government Wednesday night asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a suit filed by three governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the redesign of the naira notes.
The trio of governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) had on Monday approached the apex court to restrain the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from enforcing February 10 as the deadline for the withdrawal of old naira notes from circulation.
In the application filed by their counsel, AbdulHakeem Uthman Mustapha (SAN), the governors asked the Supreme Court to intervene as the deadline would increase the hardship of persons living in the three states.
