Mr Yusuf-Muhammad urged the court to discountenance the respondents counter affidavit and grant the applicants reliefs.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant raped the victim to death.
Counsel to the third and seventh defendant, Taye Falola, informed the court that he had yet to be served the applications and counter-affidavit.
The judge directed the deposed emirs to return all emirates’ traditional artefacts belonging to the Kano State government and the current emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
The judge adjourned the matter until October 23 and 24 for the hearing of the preliminary objection and the main charge.
The defendants are charged with eight counts of bribery, misappropriation and division of public funds running into billions of naira.
Recall that nine members of the Ganduje ward suspended the APC national chairman over the alleged corruption.
The defendant, who lives in Unguwa Uku Quarters Kano, is facing a one-count charge of culpable homicide.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The sentence term would commence from the day that the convict was arrested.
