Justice Anwuli Chikere granted the order in line with the prayers on the exparte motion filed on behalf of the deposed Emir by Mr Lateef Fagbemi SAN.
The judge also notes that the order for the release of the deposed monarch should be served on the respondents to the application.
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The respondents to the application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020 are, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Adamu; the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Bichi; the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Muktar, and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN).
The judge has therefore fixed March 26, 2020, for the hearing of the main suit challenging his detention.
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The former Emir had earlier on Thursday approached the court seeking an interim order of the court directing his immediate release from detention.
He prayed the court to order his release from “the detention and or confinement of the respondents and to restore his rights to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria, (apart from Kano State) pending the hearing and determination of the applicant’s originating summons.”
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Meanwhile, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has moved the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II out of Awe Local Government Area of the Nasarawa State where he was banished on Monday by Kano State Government.
It is not clear whether they are heading to Kaduna or Abuja.
But the Emir left with the Governor who earlier visited him.
El-Rufai and the dethroned Emir left Awe at about 4:27 pm after observing the Friday congregational prayers.
Sanusi led the Friday Juma’at prayer at the Awe Central Mosque where he admonished faithfuls to take whatever situation they found themselves as destiny.
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