Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje, said 24 out of the state’s entire 44 local governments. do not have banks.
He disclosed this following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to extend the deadline for the exchange of old naira notes by 10 days on Sunday.
Applauding the move, the governor added the extension will reduce hardships in the state, where there aren’t banks.
Ganduje stated this when he led a delegation of critical stakeholders from the state to meet with President Buhari in his country home in Daura, Katsina State.
Speaking with State House journalists after meeting with the president, Ganduje said Kano State being comparatively a rural state, “still have 24 local governments without banks, adding that “most of the banks are concentrated within Kano metropolitan.
He also used the opportunity to ask the president to go ahead with the planned state visit for Monday, which he earlier asked the president to postpone over “hardships caused by the shortage of the new notes in the state”
This came barely 24 hours after he advised the president against coming to Kano on a scheduled state visit. He said the state is now prepared to receive Buhari.
Ganduje said: “We are very much ready to receive him and we have a lot for him to commission, including federal and state projects. There are state-of-the-art projects.”
The president is also expected to visit Jigawa state on Tuesday to commission projects executed in the state and move to Kebbi on Wednesday for the same purpose before returning to Abuja.
