The Kano State High Court has fixed April 17 for the arraignment of the immediate-past Kano State governor and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, on bribery charges.
According to the Judicial (N.N) Form 2 or “Summons to an Accused Person”, Ganduje is to be arraigned at 9 am before Justice Usman Na’aba, sitting in Courtroom 4.
He will be arraigned alongside his wife, Hafsat, son, Umar and five others on eight counts, bordering on $413,000 and N1.38bn bribery.
The Kano State Government said it had assembled 15 witnesses to testify against them.
Also listed as defendants were Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Ltd, Safari Textiles Ltd and Lesage General Enterprises.
Governor Abba Yusuf had on assumption of office accused Ganduje of misappropriating public funds and allocating plots of land to some members of his immediate family.
On Monday, the state governor, Abba Yusuf, urged the EFCC to release the result of its probe into the alleged dollar bribery video involving Ganduje.
Yusuf, in a statement by his spokesperson, Sanusi Tofa, asked Ganduje to prepare to face his trial instead of talking about non-existent failure in the current administration.