Ganduje, Wife Likely To Be Absent, As Corruption Case Resumes At Kano High Court

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress  APC, Dr Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, his wife, and six others are to appear  before Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of the Kano State High Court in  continuation of the hearing of a corruption case filed against them.

But it is highly doubtful the immediate past Governor of Kano State will be available at the Court.

The Source reports that the Kano State Government had, in May 2024, filed corruption charges against the APC National Chairman, his wife, and six others, including some corporate bodies.

The charges were, however, filed against the grains of an earlier Federal High Court Kano’s ruling that only the Federal Government and its agencies are empowered to investigate and prosecute the past governor on such grounds.

Only on Thursday, June 28, Justice Simon Amobeda of a Federal High Court, Kano, also, in his ruling chided the Kano State Government for bringing up  the same matter already decided by the trial court.

According to  him, the decision of the State Government to  bring the matter back  to the trial Court, instead of appealing the earlier judgment amounted to an abuse of  Court processes.

During the last hearing on the motion, only one  of the respondents in the case, Lamash Properties was present in court owing to lack of service of court papers on Ganduje and others.

This prompted an order  by the Judge for them to be served the Court papers through substituted means before the next adjourned date of Thursday July 11 2024.

However, Ganduje, his wife and some of the other respondents, The Source have gathered, are  most probably not going to make it to the resumed hearing for reasons not  unconnected with the earlier Court rulings on the matter.