Abdullahi Ganduje, Kano State Governor, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to postpone his planned trip to the state.

Ganduje said the naira redesign and January 31 deadline for old notes had brought hardship on residents of the state and they were angry.

Via a statement signed by Abba Anwar, his chief press secretary, Ganduje advised Buhari to suspend his planned January 30 and 31 visit to commission projects.

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The statement read in part, “Deeply concerned with the hardship caused by the limited time given for halting the use of old Naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and for security reasons, Kano State governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje reveals that the state resolved and wrote to the presidency that the visit of the president to commission some projects be postponed.”

Ganduje said the people of the state were upset and the decision to advise Buhari to suspend his visit was a popular one as two senators, 20 House of Representatives members, members of the State House of Assembly and other senior citizens of the state backed it.

The statement read, “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.

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“We got an acknowledgement copy of the letter. People are suffering because of this policy.

“During the meeting with sections of citizens in the state, they accepted that the decision was a unanimous one, as they all spoke in support of the letter sent to the presidency.

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

Ganduje further said there were not enough banks in the state and people were unable to deposit their old currencies.

The warning came two days after protesters threw stones in Buhari’s direction when he visited Katsina State.