A Kano State high court has granted an interim order restraining the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, from renovating the Nasarawa mini palace.
Daily News 24 reports that the order was issued by the Kano state Chief Judge, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, who presided over the case.
It could be recalled that Emir Bayero has been staying at the Nasarawa Palace since his dethronement by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf in May 2024.
The state government, the state attorney general and Kano Emirate are the plaintiffs while Bayero is the sole defendant in the matter.
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The order directed parties in the suit to maintain status quo regarding the structural and architectural design of the palace pending hearing and determination of the suit.
“That an order of interim injunction is hereby made restraining the defendant, his agents, privies,or anyone acting under the instruction or command of the defendant under whatever manner from demolishing, renovating repairing reconstructing refurbishing the property known as Gidan Sarki Nasarawa situate a long state road,Kano pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice before this cour,” Justice Aboki held.
The applicants filed an experte dated September 9 and supported by 33 paragraphs affidavit deposed to by Matawallen Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed.
The court also ordered the monarch be served with the court processes by substituted means and fixed October 2 for hearing on motion on notice.
