The immediate past governor of the state, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, his family members and associates have secured a court order against arrest by Kano State government, its agents, Police, Department of State Services, among others.
The order was given by a Federal High Court sitting in Kano presided over by Justice A. M. Liman in an exparte order dated 6th July 2023 grants the respondents prayers.
The order stated: “The respondents whether themselves, or acting through their officers, men, operatives, agents, privies or any person or group of persons howsoever described from harrassing, intimidating, inviting, threatening to arrest, arresting, detaining the applicant or his children or any member of his family, or any appointee who served under the administration of the applicant or forcefully taking over of the applicant’s properties or his children or any member of his family, or any appointee who served under the administration of the applicant pending determination of the applicant’s substantive originating motion on the matter.
