Three security personnel attached to the wife of Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, have reportedly been arrested following her departure from her husband’s residence amid their divorce crisis.
The arrests were linked to Zainab Musa Kwankwaso’s movement out of the governor’s house, a development that has now led to a divorce suit before an Upper Area Court in Gudu, Abuja.
Citing Daily Nigerian, The Daily Crucible had earlier reported that Zainab, daughter of the governor’s predecessor and estranged political ally, Rabiu Kwankwaso, filed the suit, registered as CV/97/26, about 20 years after their marriage.
Sources close to Kwankwaso’s political group, the Kwankwasiyya Movement, confirmed the divorce proceedings, saying Yusuf had been summoned to appear before the court on Tuesday, November 17.
“Yes, it is true. The woman has moved out of her husband’s house and the governor has been asked to appear before the court on November 17. The reason for her divorce is known to her; I don’t want to insinuate,” a Kwankwaso ally said, according to a report by PUNCH.
“She was based in Abuja; she occasionally visited Kano. But I was told she had moved out of her husband’s house about three weeks ago,” he added.
Asked about the arrest of the security personnel, the ally responded, “yes, I am aware.”
Efforts to obtain the state government’s reaction through the Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Waiya, were not successful.
The divorce matter comes amid the political rift between Yusuf and Kwankwaso, who fell out following the governor’s defection to the All Progressives Congress.
