Kano State Government and Islamic clerics from Tijjaniyya, Qadiriyya and Izala sects in the state have called on the Federal Government to extend the January 31 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop accepting old naira notes.
The call was sequel to the resolution of a meeting by the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, top government officials and Islamic clerics at the government house on Thursday.
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The meeting, according to statement by Hassan Musa Fagge, Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor on Friday, noted that economic activities have been paralysed in Kano, the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria due to hardship caused by the shortage of the new Naira notes.
“The meeting therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari that out of his magnanimity to consider the suffering caused to people of the State due to the shortage of the new Naira notes and extend the deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria,” the statement reads in part.
The statement added that the meeting was also in attendance, thegovernor and APC Gubernatorial Candidate, Dr.Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, his running-mate Murtala Sule Garo, APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas and the Islamic Clerics.
