The Attorneys General of 10 States have asked the Supreme Court to reverse the February 16 directive by President Muhammadu Buhari retaining only the old N200 note as legal tender.
The States, in a motion filed on Friday, want the apex Court to issue an order setting aside “the directive contained in the special and presidential media broadcast delivered on Thursday, the 16th of February, 2023 by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for being an unconstitutional overreach and usurpation of the judicial power of this court on a matter constituting the subject matter of the pending suit herein, and in respect whereof there subsists an order of interim injunction binding on all parties inclusive of the President who is a party through the named nominal defendant in person of the first defendant, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as the Chief legal officer of the Federation.”
The application, a copy of which was sighted on Saturday, was filed in the name of the AGs of Kaduna, Kogi, Zamfara, Ondo, Ekiti, Katsina, Ogun, Cross River, Lagos and Sokoto States.
They stated that the “application stems from the directive made by the President of the federation in his special and Presidential broadcast delivered on Thursday, the 16th of February 2023.
“The substantive suit, which is currently before this court, commenced on the 8th February 2023. “
