COURT STOPS GANDUJE FROM IMPLEMENTING NEW EMIRATE LAW

A Kano High Court has granted an order restraining Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, from implementing the breakup of the Kano Emirate.

Ganduje signed a bill of the Kano State House of Assembly which created four additional emirates into law on Wednesday, a move widely seen as a depletion of Emir Lamido Sanusi’s influence.

The issue immediately took a political dimension with the Peoples Democratic Party members in the House saying that the four additional emirates were not properly created, accusing the All Progressives Congress majority of disregarding extant parliamentary procedures.

Two PDP House members, including the minority leader, said they received a court order against the new emirates on Friday afternoon.

The lawmakers said the House was not properly convened before the bill for the law was hurriedly passed on Wednesday.