The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai said that the Federal Government has informed Governors that all the N500 and N1,000 bank notes retrieved by the Central Bank of Nigeria from Bank customers have been destroyed.
He said this in a statement issued on Wednesday night while responding to some media reports (NOT THE WHISTLER) that President Muhammadu Buhari has held a meeting with Governors to resolve the naira redesign crisis.