… says govs’ actions amount to treason
Nathaniel Shaibu
A lawyer and human rights activist, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, says the presidency has not disobeyed the Supreme Court order, which stated that the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes are still legal tender.
The PUNCH reports that the Supreme Court had on Wednesday, affirmed the validity of the old notes, maintaining that the hearing on February 8 which paused the implementation of the February 10 deadline on the use of the old naira notes still subsisted.
Reactions had trailed the insistence of the CBN that the February 10 deadline remained, with many calling on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the Governor of the Central bank, Godwin Emefiele, to obey the order of the apex court.
But speaking during an interview on Thursday evening, on The Verdict 2023, a programme aired on Channels Television, Odinkalu said neither the…