Ganduje Appoints Aboki As Kano Acting Chief Judge

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has approved the appointment of Justice Dije Aboki as acting Chief Judge of the state.

The development was confirmed in a statement made available to reporters by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba.

Naija News understands that Aboki’s appointment followed the retirement of the erstwhile Chief Judge, Justice Nura Sagir. 

Justice Aboki, before her appointment, served as a state High Court judge since 2006.

The statement said her appointment takes immediate effect. It reads: “A 1983 graduate of Law from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Justice Aboki was called to the bar in 1984.

“Aboki began her career as state counsel in 1985 under the state Ministry of Justice. A year later, she was appointed a Magistrate and rose to become a High Court judge in 2006,.’

Justice Aboki is a member of various professional bodies and holds numerous positions.

Adamu Garba Reacts To Court Ruling On BVAS Reconfiguration

Meanwhile, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has reacted to the court ruling that granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) used for the just-concluded presidential election.

Naija News recalls that the Appeal Court, in a unanimous decision on Wednesday, rejected the request of the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to stop INEC from reconfiguring all the BVAS used in the February 25 election.

The court held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the forthcoming Governorship and State Assembly elections.

According to the court, allowing the objections by Obi and his party would amount to tying the hands of the respondent (INEC).

It also noted that INEC had filed an affidavit before the court, assured that the accreditation data contained in the BVAS could not be tampered with or lost, as they would be stored and easily retrieved from its accredited back-end server.

The court held that neither Obi nor LP controverted the depositions in INEC’s affidavit, stressing that since such averments were not challenged, it amounted to an admission by the applicants.

Taking to his Twitter account to react to the court judgement on Wednesday, Garba said the court had done the needful by denying the request of the LP flagbearer.

He wrote: “The Court has done the needful!”