It’s been a loud silence from Buhari
By Rotimi Fasan RECENTLY the Supreme Court overturned the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, delegitimising the use of the old N1000, N500 and N200 notes as legal tenders. Since that decision of the Supreme Court up to the time I’m writing this, the only notable word of concern that has come out of the President was to offer his apologies for the hardship Nigerians had endured in the entire period of the so-called cash change exercise. Perhaps the situation would have changed today after the President said on Monday he did not instruct Malami and the CBN to disobey Supreme Court judgement and Nigerians can now go about transacting their everyday business with some assurance that they wouldn’t be subjected to the embarrassment of not finding cash to pay or being stylishly detained at the point of transacting their business until their electronic fund transfers can be confirmed. Buhari apologised to Nigerians, and, thereaf...