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Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Liman of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Kano has scheduled ruling on a movement filed by Aminu Babba Danagundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba difficult the legality of the Kano Emirates Council (Repeal) Legislation 2024 for June 20, 2024.
The movement, introduced ahead by Danagundi’s counsel, Chikaosolu Ojukwu (SAN), seeks a declaration that the regulation is null and void.
The authorized battle intensified after the court docket dismissed an oral utility for a keep of proceedings by Eyitayo Fatogun (SAN), representing the Kano State Home of Meeting.
Fatogun had argued for an adjournment, citing dissatisfaction with the court docket’s jurisdictional ruling and indicating that an enchantment had been filed on the Courtroom of Enchantment, together with a movement for a keep of proceedings. Counsel to the attorney-general of Kano State, A.G. Wakil, supported this place.
Nonetheless, Ojukwu countered that the authorities cited by the defence had been merely guidelines of court docket and never binding judicial selections. Justice Liman identified that there was no formal keep of proceedings utility earlier than the court docket, noting the absence of a set date or proof that the enchantment had been entered.
In the course of the session, when Danagundi’s counsel moved the movement for declaring the defendants’ conduct null and void, Fatogun requested to be recused from the matter, asking for an adjournment to permit his shoppers to seek out new illustration. Justice Liman criticised this request as an abuse of the court docket course of.
Opposing the plaintiff’s movement, A.G. Wakil argued that granting the movement would successfully resolve the substantive case. Following this, Danagundi’s counsel withdrew his utility to amend the originating movement dated June 31, 2024. The decide subsequently struck out the modification and adjourned the case to June 20 for a ruling on the core movement.
The Kano State Home of Meeting handed the Emirate Council repeal regulation on the thirteenth of Might 2024.
The repeal, assented by Governor Abba Yusuf scrapped the 4 emirates created in 2019 by the Ganduje administration and was used to dethrone Emir Aminu Ado Bayero and successfully changed him with Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II.