2027: Zainab, Kwankwaso's daughter files for divorce against Gov Yusuf, offers to return dowry

Zainab Musa Kwankwaso, the 2nd woman of Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has reportedly filed for divorcement astatine an Upper Area Court successful Abuja, offering to instrumentality the dowry paid during their marriage.

The girl of erstwhile Kano State Governor and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso instituted a civilian suit marked CV/97/26 astatine the Upper Area Court, Gudu, Abuja.

The tribunal has reportedly summoned Governor Yusuf to look connected November 17, 2026, successful transportation with the divorcement proceedings.

Zainab and Yusuf got joined connected July 29, 2006, erstwhile she was serving arsenic an adjutant to her father. Their national produced six children.

The improvement comes against the backdrop of an ongoing governmental disagreement betwixt Governor Yusuf and his erstwhile governmental godfather and father-in-law, Kwankwaso.

Yusuf secured his predetermination arsenic politician nether the level of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, mostly benefiting from Kwankwaso’s governmental influence. However, tensions reportedly emerged aft Yusuf aboriginal defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Reports bespeak that the governmental disagreement betwixt Kwankwaso and the governor, which began astir a twelvemonth ago, has besides contributed to increasing tensions wrong the marriage.

Further reports revealed that Zainab moved retired of the Kano Government House connected October 28 and relocated to her father's residence on Miller ...