The All Progressives Congress has demanded the immediate resignation of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Salihu Lukman, made the call on Friday for misleading President Muhammadu Buhari to flout the Supreme Court order on the new naira redesign policy.
Lukman’s demand is coming hours after the apex court invalidated the CBN policy on the grounds that it was implemented without due consultation.
The court added that the policy was not in line with constitutional provisions.
Consequently, the Supreme Court ruled that the old N200, N500 and N1,000 naira notes should co-exists with the new ones until December 31.
In a statement titled “Cashless Policy: Supreme Court Invalidates Actions of the Federal Government”, Lukman hailed the Court for declaring the cashless policy unconstitutional and an utter violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerians.
He further urged Malami and Emefiele to resign honorably from their positions over the role in the making things difficult for the government and Nigerians.
He said;
“It is also unfortunate that President Muhammadu Buhari could be misled into such acts of illegality and abuse of executive powers as pronounced by the Supreme Court. We, and indeed all Nigerians, are grateful to the Supreme Court Justices led by Justice Akomaye for this landmark judicial intervention.
“Given the injurious nature of the consequences of the cashless policy of the Federal Government as was implemented thus far, and the damage of the Supreme Court ruling to the profile of President Buhari, Godwin Emefiele and Abubakar Malami must take personal responsibility for this act of illegality by the Federal Government. In advanced democracies, public officers who commit such acts of illegality voluntarily resign from their appointments.
“Therefore, if indeed, the cashless policy of the Federal Government was supposedly designed to conform with extant legal provisions of the Nigerian Federation, now that it turned out in the direct opposite, both the CBN Governor, Mr. Emefiele and the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Malami should accept the limitations of both their knowledge of the law and commitment to democracy by resigning from their respective offices forthwith.
“Rule of law is fundamental to democracy and individuals who flagrantly violate the laws or promote acts that breach the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must not be tolerated.”
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