In a statewide broadcast on the night of Thursday, February 16, 2023, El-Rufai appealed to Kaduna residents to continue to use the old naira notes alongside the new notes without any fear.
The governor’s declaration comes in defiance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement in a nationwide broadcast early Thursday morning that only the old N200 note will be recirculated until April 10 as the old N1,000 and N500 notes have ceased to be legal tender since February 10, 2023.
The president, therefore, urged Nigerians still in possession of the ‘invalid’ notes to take them to designated Central Bank centres for lodging.
