KANO State governor Abdullahi Ganduje has said some opposition political parties are seeking to disrupt the democratic transition while hiding behind the naira redesign policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The governor made the claim in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Mallam Muhammad Garba.

Reacting to the suit filed by four political parties seeking non-extension of the deadline for withdrawing old naira notes from circulation, Ganduje accused the parties of secretly working with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to sabotage the country’s democracy.

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He also described the CBN’s new naira policy as a harsh and insensitive one, implemented despite it’s rejection by most Nigerians.

“It is unfortunate that the CBN and its collaborators are insisting unnecessarily on the imposition of an unreasonable time frame for the old Naira notes to cease to be legal tender, in total refutation of the apparent national shortage in the necessary technological infrastructure for the process.

“The rigid insistence on the implementation of these harsh, inhuman and insensitive cash policies to the point of neglecting their widespread rejection by the vast majority of Nigerians, including the National Assembly and all state governors, is an ominous agenda for the undermining of the nation and consequent scurrying of a smooth transition to a freely and fairly elected successive administration,” he said.