The recent claim by the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, that he took Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, to the homes of Supreme Court judges in 2019 to induce them must not be ignored if the war against corruption in the judiciary is not a mere lip service, Davidson Iriekpen writes
Four weeks after the former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, claimed that he took Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, to the homes of Supreme Court judges in 2019, neither the Supreme Court of Nigeria nor the National Judicial Council (NJC) has launched an investigation into the claim.
Kwankwaso made his remarks amid political tension following Governor Yusuf’s defection from the NNPP to the All Progressives Congress (APC)—a move he described as the greatest political betrayal of his life. He said it would have been preferable for Yusuf to join a new political platform rather than defect to what he called political adversaries.
