Naira Scarcity: Buhari’s minister, Keyamo praises APC governors for suing FG
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has praised the courage of his party’s governors who opposed the Muhammadu Buhari administration at the Supreme Court.
Mr Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said by their actions, the APC governors were “fighting for the masses, fighting for the people to get succour” against the policy of a government that he serves as minister.
“Every single governor that has gone to court fighting for the masses, fighting for the people to get succour, they are all APC governors,” Mr Keyamo told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how three APC-led governments, Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara, sued the APC-led federal government at the Supreme Court, demanding the reversal of the deadline set for the use of old naira notes.
The Central Bank of Nigeria had fixed 10 February as the deadline for the use of old N200, N500 and N1,000 naira notes.
Based on the suit by the APC governors, the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of the deadline, an order the federal government has ignored.
When the case came up again last week, six other APC-led state governments and one led by the main opposition party, PDP, joined the suit against the federal government.
However, two other PDP-led states also joined the suit, in support of the federal government.
Mr Keyamo, who is also the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said the suit by the APC state governments is an indication of true federalism.
He said that for APC governors to take a stand against the federal government on the policy, it showed that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, if elected on 25 February as president, would ensure true federalism in the country.
“People are calling for true federalism. What you are seeing in display is true federalism,” Mr Keyamo said.
“They should support APC because APC is now displaying the character of true federation where the component parts can disagree with the federal government.
“Don’t forget that it was Tinubu that started it long ago when he was governor he was always taking the federal government to court on every issue to tell you that the component parts of the country can disagree with the federal government.
“We are not going to sell off Nigerians because of party politics. That is what the governors have shown the world that we are not prepared to sell you out because of loyalty to the centre,” he said. Premium Times
