Former Presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has called for the arrest of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his comment insisting on the use of banned old Naira notes in the state.

Governor El-Rufai’s had countered President Muhammadu Buhari‘s pronouncement during his nationwide broadcast on Thursday morning, where he maintained that the naira redesign policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stands.

President Buhari noted that only the old N200 notes would be acceptable for transactions, while the old N500 and N1000 remain banned. He had asked Nigerians to take the old denominations to the CBN and designated places.

Meanwhile, in his statewide address on Thursday night, Governor El-Rufai declared that all the old Naira notes would remain legal tender in Kaduna until the Supreme Court of Nigeria decides otherwise.

Reacting to the Governor’s stance via a post on his Instagram page, Reno Omokri described El-Rufai’s action against the Central Bank of Nigeria and Buhari’s broadcast as treason.

He said that a state of emergency should be declared in Kaduna State with the Governor removed or arrested.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain further stated that if El-Rufai is not arrested, then the President should apologize to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu adding the Kaduna governor had done worst than the latter.

In his word: “What Nasir El-Rufai has done in defying the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive and President Buhari’s national broadcast, by saying that the old Naira notes would still be valid in Kaduna, is treason.

“If a state of emergency is not declared in Kaduna, and the Governor removed, arrested, and tried, then Buhari should apologise to Nnamdi Kanu and release him. Because what El-Rufai has done is a worse case of treason than what Nnamdi Kanu allegedly did.”