The Kano State Government and several Islamic clerics from Tijjaniyya, Qadiriyya, and Izala sects in the state have urged the Federal Government to extend the January 31st deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to stop accepting old naira notes.
This recent call was made after a meeting resolution by the state governor Ganduje, important government officials, and the Islamic clerics at the Government House on Thursday, January 26.
The meeting highlighted those economic activities had been crippled in Kano due to hardship occasioned by the shortage of the new naira notes. This was according to a statement by Hassan Musa Fagge, the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, who on Friday, noted that the meeting had called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, out of his magnanimity, consider the suffering caused to people of the State due to the shortage of the new naira notes and to kindly extend the deadline set by the CBN.
The meeting had been attended by the Deputy Governor of the state and APC governorship candidate, Dr. Nasiru Gawuna; his running-mate Murtala Sule Garo; APC chairman, Abdullahi Abbas; and the Islamic clerics.
