A federal High Court in Kano has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to two judges heading the Kano Commissions of Inquiries to resign their appointments or risk losing their statutory remunerations. 
 
Justice Simon Amobeda gave the order while delivering judgment in the matter instituted by former governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje. 
Ganduje had dragged the two judges, Farouk Lawan Adamu and Zuwaira Yusuf, who are chairmen of the commission before the court, alleging a deliberate attempt to probe him. 
 
Although, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, while raising the two panels, ‘Recovery of Misappropriated Public Properties and Assets’, and ‘Political Violence and Missing Persons’ said the intention was not targeting any individual or personality, but to uncover facts. 
 
In his ruling, Justice Amobeda restated that failure by the judges to comply with the 48-hour deadline, the National Judicial Council (1st defendant) shall stop forthwith, the payment of any remuneration, allowances and benefits meant for judicial officers from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation to the judges.
 
He said the judges should desist from performing executive functions assigned to them by the governor of Kano State in court rooms to adjudicate in disputes between persons and authorities in the state.
 
The presiding judge held that the action by the governor to set up the panels to investigate Ganduje without appealing an earlier court judgment by Justice A. Liman declaring that the plaintiff could only be investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or the Independent Corrupt Practices and related Offences Commission (ICPC), amounted to abuse of office and undermining of the sanctity of the judiciary.
 
Respondents in the suit were National Judicial Council (1st defendant); Revenue Mobilisation Allocation And Fiscal Commission (2nd defendant), Attorney-General Kano State (3rd defendant), while Hon. Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu and Hon. Justice Zuwaira Yusuf were 4th and 5th defendants.