Court stops Ganduje’s probe by Kano govt

Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has granted an ex-parte directive halting the proceedings of the two commissions of enquiry set up by the Kano state government to probe the administration of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the immediate past governor of Kano State.

Recall that Abba Kabir Yusuf, the Kano state governor, last month unveiled two judicial commissions of inquiry into cases of misappropriation of public property, political violence and missing persons between 2015 and 2023 when Ganduje, now the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), govern the state.

The commissions, headed by Justices Zuwaira Yusuf and Faruk Lawan, have since commenced sittings.

But in an ex-parte motion filed by Ganduje, the two justices, the Kano state attorney general, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission and the National Judicial Council (NJC) were listed as respondents.

Granting the order, Justice S.A. Amobeda, restrained the two justices “from performing the executive functions assigned to them by the Governor of Kano state in court rooms meant to adjudicate disputes between persons and authorities in Kano, pending the hearing and determination of the instant suit.”

It was also directed that the case will be given an hastened hearing and was afterwards adjourned to May 28 for hearing.