Court delays ruling in Ganduje port case

A Kano High Court has postponed proceedings successful the lawsuit involving erstwhile governor, Abdullahi Ganduje implicit the ownership of a multi-billion-naira inland larboard project.

Ganduje and 3 others are facing 10 charges, including transgression conspiracy, misuse of nationalist funds, breach of trust, and struggle of interest.

The Kano State Government filed the charges against him, his adjutant Abubakar Bawuro, his lawyer, Adamu Aliyu-Sanda, and a erstwhile Managing Director of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Hassan Bello.

The lawsuit was stalled connected Monday aft a beardown disagreement betwixt the defence and the prosecution teams.

Lead defence lawyer, A.S. Gadanya (SAN), questioned the ineligible approval, known arsenic a fiat, that allowed the state’s ineligible squad to prosecute the case.

He argued that the papers presented successful tribunal was meant for a antithetic substance and did not authorise the existent prosecution. Based connected that, helium asked the tribunal to nullify each erstwhile proceedings handled by the prosecution.

However, the state’s lawyer, R.O. Zakariyya, disagreed. He told the tribunal that the prosecution squad had due ineligible backing. Zakariyya presented what helium described arsenic a valid fiat, which helium said intelligibly listed each members of the prosecution squad and empowered them to grip the case.

Justice Yusuf Ubale of High Court No. 2...