The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared the former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, innocent of murder charges slammed on him by the Kano State Government.
The court also ordered the state government to pay N25 million to Ado Doguwa as damages.
According to the certified true copy of the judgment of the Abuja Federal High Court, dated 5 December 2023, in suit No: FHC/ABJ/ABJ/CS/714/2019, the judge, Justice D.U. Okorowo, cleared Doguwa of the murder allegation.
Doguwa, the Chairman, House Committee on Downstream Petroleum, is representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency in Kano State.
The Kano government had sued him for allegedly commiting murder during the 2023 elections.
But the court declared that Doguwa was wrongly accused and awarded N25 million as damages against the Kano State Government and the Police.
Doguwa was arrested by the Police in Kano and arraigned in court over the murder case.
He was later released on bail at the orders of another court, after which he applied for the review of police investigations that led to his arrest, arraignment and detention.
The immediate-past All Progressives Congress, APC, government in the state had dropped the police investigation and exonerated him.
The alleged murder case was, however, reopened by the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, administration, which accused Doguwa of killing over 15 people, mostly NNPP members.