The immediate past governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has asked a high court in the state to perpetually restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from inviting or investigating him over dollar videos.
The video clips, published by DAILY NIGERIAN in 2018, had showed how the former governor was receiving bundles of dollar notes suspected to be a bribe from a contractor.
While the governor had since debunked the content of the videos, the state House of Assembly subsequently set up a committee to investigate the allegations.
The committee was yet to turn in its report even as a new assembly was inaugurated on Tuesday.
But in a suit seen by TheCable on Wednesday, Mr Ganduje, through the former Kano attorney general, asked the court to restrain the anti-graft agency from investigating him until a suit between himself and Jafaar Jafaar, publisher of the DAILY NIGERIAN, is determined.
Mr Ganduje also asked the court to declare that the invitation and interrogation of the state universal basic education board, SUBEB, chairman and accountant general of Kano in connection to the video is illegal.
Some of the prayers read: “A declaration of this Honourable Court that by virtue of the supremacy of the 1999 constitution as established by Sections 1 (1) thereof, since the Kano state house of assembly has begun investigation pursuant to its powers under section 128 of the 1999 constitution in connection with the video clips of bribery allegation against Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
