Kano Govt stops Buhari visit over new naira note crisis

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has revealed that the State wrote to the Presidency that the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to commission some projects be postponed.

He made this known during his interactive session with scholars, legislators, political leaders and business community in the State at the Government House, Kano, on Friday.

He noted that the decision was taken to avoid any unforeseen circumstance.

“As we are waiting for this important visit, we found ourselves in this situation, which puts citizens into untold hardship. For security purposes, we wrote to the Presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano be postponed.

“We got an acknowledgement copy of the letter. People are really suffering because of this policy,” the governor said, referring to the crisis over the new naira note.

During the meeting with sections of citizens in the State, they accepted that the decision was a unanimous one.

Two serving Senators from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya and Barau Jibrin, members of the House of Representatives and thirty legislators from the State House of Assembly were amongst the groups that put their weight behind the governor.