A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Muiz Banire, has alleged that the governors insisting on the continued circulation of all the old naira notes as legal tender are doing so for the purpose of vote-buying.

Banire alleged that the governors were planning to deceive voters to accept the “already stocked old notes in their custody for the purpose of buying voters’ conscience.”

He made the allegations in a statement posted to his LinkedIn page on Friday.

“A lot of us might not understand why the Governors are insisting on the old notes being legal tender,” the SAN wrote. “Certainly, it is not that they don’t know that they do not have the power to declare what is legal tender, neither did they not know that [they] … lack the capacity to enforce any Supreme Court judgment.

The secret is simply that they are out to deceive the unwary potential voters into accepting the already stocked old notes in their custody for the purpose of buying voters’ conscience,” he alleged.

Banire advised voters who wished to collect money from politicians to insist on “the real legal tender as pronounced by the apex bank.”

He wrote, “My counsel is that potential voters who must take money should either insist on the real legal tender as pronounced by the apex bank or any other currency acceptable to them.”

He, however, admonished that ”your conscience is not worth buying, but if you must collect the money which mostly is stolen from the treasury, insist on legal tender and still vote your conscience. This is part of our leadership campaign leadership series.”

inoki247:
Old note wey people go still colet on election day if worst come to worst dey will resell derr 1k old note for 700naira....



People don already dey buy the old note..

Govt just keep creating avenue for people to rip dem sef....

PointZerom:
Yarimo if you like collect old naira notes from El-Rufai and Ganduje for vote buying, it'll remain in your hands.

inoki247:
Old note wey people go still colet on election day if worst come to worst dey will resell derr 1k old note for 700naira....



People don already dey buy the old note..

Govt just keep creating avenue for people to rip dem sef....

CyynthiaKiss:
Old notes people people are rejecting left and right

2mercy:




https://punchng.com/governors-planning-to-buy-votes-with-old-naira-notes-san/


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Misterone:
so governors cannot exchange the old notes to new ones? Or do they need to understand rocket science to do that? Where are the new notes if I may ask, are they not sitting in vaults in various government House? At present, votes can be bought with even fufu or cup of rice. The redesign policy has boomerang

Vulcanheph:

The truth is that most politicians won't be able to change up to 30% of the money they've stolen and hidden over the years... This is why they're so angry.