The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has criticised the President Muhammadu-led Federal Government as one with a history of disobedience to orders of the court.
Falana made this revelation while granting a television interview.
He said, “It is very sad. I do hope that this outgoing government would comply with the judgement in totality.”
The human rights lawyer criticised the federal government for turning a deaf ear to the order of the Supreme Court order.
He said, “The Central Bank has not been asked to make a statement allowing banks to comply with the judgement of the Supreme Court. Again, as I said before now, this can only happen in a banana republic.
“You cannot dance around the judgement of the Supreme Court otherwise, you are saying you don’t want the rule of law to operate in your country,” “It is very sad. I do hope that this outgoing government would comply with the judgement in totality.”
“So, we have such cases very many. The Supreme Court order admitted that “this government has a history of disobeying court orders.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not need his order before it would obey the judgement of the Supreme Court.
The president on Monday, March 13 said the CBN does not need his consent before it would follow the directive of the apex court.
This was revealed in a statement released by a presidential media aide, Malam Garba Shehu.
The presidential spokesperson said the Nigerian leader did not sponsor the Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele and the Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami to disobey order of the Supreme Court.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has declared the old naira notes N200, N500 and N1000 legal tender until December 31, 2023.
This was revealed by the spokesperson of the apex bank, Isa Abdulmumin, CBN spokesperson in a statement on Monday, March 13, 2023.