A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has restrained the state governor, Umar Ganduje from implementing the reports of the anti-corruption commission which indicted the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Lamido Sanusi II.
The Court on Tuesday granted the ex-parte motion Sanusi filed on Tuesday against the governor and the Attorney-General of the state, Barrister Ibrahim Mukhtar.
The court also restrained Mukhtar and the state’s Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission from acting on the Preliminary Report of Investigation In Respect of Petition of Financial Misappropriation against the Emir.
Governor Ganduje and Sanusi have been at loggerheads since 2016 when the Emir started criticizing the governor, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The state’s anti-corruption agency heated up the hostilities when it recently indicted the Emir of misappropriating N3.7 billion belonging to the Kano Emirate.
The Commission also recommended Sanusi’s suspension and Ganduje was said to have been restrained from deposing the emir only by the intervention of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and business mogul, Aliko Dangote.
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