The Ekiti State government has applied to be joined as a co-plaintiff in a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime at the Supreme Court over the naira redesign policy and the deadline by the CBN.
Yinka Oyebode, the Special Adviser to Governor Biodun Oyebanji on Media, announced this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday.
According to him, the application for joinder was filed on Friday at the Supreme Court by the Ekiti Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dayo Apata, seeking three reliefs.
The statement said the suit, with the number SC/CV/162/2023, had Attorneys General of Kaduna State, Kogi State and Zamfara State as plaintiffs, while the Attorney General of the Federation was the defendant.
The reliefs sought by the Attorney General of Ekiti included leave of the court to join the applicants as a co-plaintiff.
Some of the grounds for the application included an acute shortage in the supply of naira notes in the state since the announcement of the policy by the…
