Kano State Excessive Court docket has fastened April 29, 2024 for listening to on whether or not respondents within the case between the state authorities and former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, now All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman and 5 others will be served by substituted means.
Within the case, which was presided over by Justice Usman Na’abba in Kano, the prosecuting counsel, Ya’u Adamu, has sought the courtroom order to permit the respondents to be served by way of substituted means.
He argued that they’ve the authorized backing to serve the respondents by way of substituted means.
The counsel advised the courtroom yesterday that they made efforts to serve the respondents discover on movement however couldn’t attain them. Nonetheless, the counsel to the sixth respondent was served the discover and never his consumer. Therefore, they sought the courtroom nod to serve them by substituted means.
The counsel to the sixth respondent (Lamash Properties), Nuraini Jimoh, argued that the regulation insists that in a prison case, the respondent have to be served a summon in particular person.
He mentioned that even his consumer has not been served personally and argued that every one the respondents have to be served personally because the case is a prison case.
Consequently, Justice Na’abba adjourned the case to April 29 for listening to and directed that the six respondents be served on discover personally.
The Kano State authorities sued Ganduje earlier than the state Excessive Court docket on instances bordering on corruption.
