The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had dragged the state Commissioner of Justice and Attorney-General, Haruna Isa Dederi, before the disciplinary committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), over allegations of corruption against the state judiciary.
The petition which was issued on Sunday by the State APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, and addressed to NBA President, Yakubu Maikyau and Chairman of the Kano chapter, Sagir Gezawa, accused Dederi of alleging on a live television programme that justices of the Appeal Court are corrupt.
Dederi, during an interview on Channels Television last week, had reportedly expressed his disappointment with the manner the justices of the appellate courts handled the sack of Governor Abba Yusuf and how unreliable Nigeria’s judiciary has become in recent times.
