By HEADLINENEWS.NEWS correspondent
The Kano State High Court has fixed May 16, 2024 for the scheduled arraignment of the immediate-past governor of Kano State and national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, on bribery charges.
Ganduje, his wife Hafsat and son Umar and five others, who are defendants in the suit, were expected to be arraigned on eight count charges bordering on a $413,000 bribery allegation, diversion and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N1.38billion and abuse of office among other allegations.
They were first scheduled to be arraigned before Justice Justice Usman Na’abba on April 17 but the arraignment could not go on due to service failure.
The process was stalled for the second time on Monday over the difficulty by the prosecution to serve the charges on him and his co-defendants.
At the resumed hearing on Monday, the defendants were still absent from court.
The prosecuting counsel for the state, Adeola Adedegbe, blamed the situation on service failure and applied to the court to grant him the leave to serve the charges on the defendants by substituted means.