The Supreme Court reaffirmed on Wednesday that the new naira action will soon be heard,
During a court proceeding, the attorney for Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo, asked the court to order the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to cease representing the respondents while acting in violation of the court’s initial orders because he was “coming off-handedly to ask for reliefs.”
He said that the “issue of contempt, overrides issue of jurisdiction.”
Responding to this, Justice John Okoro, said, “you are not a stranger to this country.
We don’t want a situation where the judiciary will be a scapegoat. We refuse to be the scapegoat”.
“We are hearing this matter today. We don’t intend to keep this matter longer… whether they obey it or not,” Mr Onigbanjo expressed.
The injunction followed a lawsuit brought on February 3 by the state governments of Zamfara, Kogi, and Kaduna against the Attorney-General of the Federation.
As co-plaintiffs, additional states, including Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Kano, Sokoto, Ogun, and Cross River, have also joined the lawsuit.