Court declines to halt Kano deputy governor’s impeachment process

A Federal High Court has rejected a petition by Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo to temporarily halt the impeachment process initiated against him by the State House of Assembly.

Delivering the ruling connected March 25, 2026, Justice S.M. Shaibu held that the lawman politician did not conscionable the ineligible conditions required for the tribunal to assistance specified an urgent order, which was filed without proceeding the different parties involved.

The tribunal besides directed Gwarzo to service each indispensable ineligible documents connected the respondents truthful they tin decently respond to the case.

Meanwhile, the Kano State House of Assembly had earlier secured its ain interim tribunal bid connected March 11, 2026.

That bid restrains the lawman politician from taking immoderate enactment that could interfere with the Assembly’s law duties, peculiarly nether Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

Court declines to halt Kano lawman governor’s impeachment process