The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Friday, overuled the verdict of the Federal HighCourt, Kano Divison over the appointment of Emir Mohammadu Sanusi II. In the Kano State government’s appeal on the chieftaincy issue, the appellate court overturned the lower court’s decision that questioned Sanusi’s appointment as 16th emir.
In a judgment delivered by a three-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Mustapha, the appellate court insisted that the Federal High Court overstretched its limit to rule on a matter itis lacking jurisdiction.
In an application for enforcement of fundamental rights brought before Justice Abdullahi Liman of the then Federal High Court Kano, by Aminu Babba Dan’Agundi, a former emirate council under the former Emir Aminu Ado Bayero, the lower court nullified government’s appointment of Sanusi as first class emir.
But the appellate court voided the judgment of Justice…
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