Court Halts Ganduje’s Invitation Over Dollar Bribe Video

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has been restrained from inviting former Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, over the viral Dollar bribe videos.

Naija News reports that the ruling was given on Friday, July 7, by a Federal High Court in Kano.

Recall that PCACC had announced earlier that it had invited the former governor to appear before it to answer questions in relation to its investigation of the viral videos allegedly showing Ganduje stuffing US Dollar notes in his pockets allegedly received as kickbacks from a contractor.

However, in an ex-parte motion filed before the court on Friday before Justice A.M. Liman, the former governor asked the court to restrain the eighth respondents in the motion from “harassing, intimidating, inviting, threatening to arrest, arresting, detaining the applicant or his children or any member of his family or any appointee who served in his administration or forcefully taking over the applicant’s properties or his children’s or any member of his family.”

Those listed as respondents in the suit are: Nigeria Police Force; Inspector General of Police; Commissioner of Police, Kano; State Security Service; Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps; Attorney General of Federation; Attorney General of Kano State; and Kano Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC).

Upon hearing the application as argued by Ganduje’s counsel, B. Hemba, the presiding judge granted the prayers and ordered as prayed.

The judge also ordered that “the interim order shall operate pending the hearing of the motion for enforcement of Fundamental Right which is fixed for the 14th of July, 2023″.