The governor also approved the promotion of his Chief Press Secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, to the position of Director General, Media and Publicity.
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has approved the appointment of additional seven heads of agencies and 13 special advisers into his cabinet.
The governor also approved the promotion of his Chief Press Secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, to the position of Director General, Media and Publicity.
This was made known in a statement issued on Thursday in Kano, the state capital by the Director, Public Enlightenment, Kano Government House, Aliyu Yusuf.
According to the statement, the fresh appointment is with immediate effect.
The statement added that Rabi’u Saleh Gwarzo is now Permanent Commissioner of the State Universal Education Board (SUBEB).
The statement further named Engineer Sarki Ahmad as the Director General of Rural Access and Mobility Project while Surajo Imam Dala, is the Director General of Cottage Trade and Street Hawking.
The governor is currently at the Supreme Court where he is contending his sacking by the Court of Appeal.
Over three weeks ago, the appeal court panel upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023.
The lower court had declared 165,663 votes of Yusuf, who contested under the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), invalid on the grounds that they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The governor’s votes were then reduced to 853,939 while those of Nasir Ganuwa, his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, remained at 890,705.
Yusuf had rejected the tribunal verdict, which he described as “unfair” and “a miscarriage of justice”, and headed to the appeal court, which also ruled in favour of his opponent.
After the appeal court judgment, there was tension in Kano as different groups fixed protests but security operatives prevented some of them from going ahead with the demonstrations to prevent break down of law and order.