Ortom said, “I join the National Assembly members to prevail on the CBN to extend the deadline of exchange of the old naira notes.”
By Jeffrey Agbo
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for the use of the old naira notes.
Ortom said on Wednesday when he received the governing council and management of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (JOSTUM) that should be the CBN fail to extend the January 31st deadline those in the rural areas would suffer the most.
The governor said that since the new notes were not much in circulation, it was not possible, especially for the rural dwellers, to meet up with the deadline, adding that most of them did not even have bank accounts.
“I join the National Assembly members to prevail on the CBN to extend the deadline of exchange of the old naira notes,” said Ortom.
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“If we do not say it as it were we are liars and sycophants. Things are not right in this country.
“We want to let the President know that people are suffering and something must be done to reduce it.”
Ortom’s statement came a day after the Senate urged the CBN to extend the deadline to the middle of the year.
The governor commended President Muhammadu Buhari for heeding to the demands to immortalise the late Joseph Sarwuan Tarka and renaming the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi after him.