Kano Police Arrest Zainab Kwankwaso’s Orderly and Two Others Over Her Disappearance from Government House

The Kano State Police Command has arrested three persons, including the personal orderly attached to Zainab Kwankwaso, the second wife of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, over her sudden disappearance from the Kano Government House.

The arrests followed reports that Zainab left her matrimonial home without the knowledge of her husband or her security detail, triggering concerns over how she reportedly travelled to Abuja.

The Commissioner of Police, Dr Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, has ordered an investigation to establish how she left the Government House and the circumstances surrounding her movement to Abuja.

Sources indicated that Zainab departed the Government House on October 28, initially moving to her father’s residence on Miller Road in Kano before boarding a flight to Abuja without her police orderly or other security escorts.

Her orderly reportedly raised the alarm after suspecting something was amiss with her sudden departure and notified superiors at the Government House, who then briefed the Governor.

Airport security operatives were initially instructed to prevent her from boarding the Abuja-bound flight, but they ultimately stood down to avoid a public scene at the terminal.

Following her departure, security personnel attached to her quarters at the Government House and operatives stationed at Senator Kwankwaso’s Miller Road residence were arrested and interrogated before being released.

Zainab’s elder sister and her elder brother, Ado Kwankwaso, were also reportedly summoned by the police over allegations that they facilitated her departure from Kano.

Sources further alleged that external pressure is being mounted on police authorities to file kidnapping charges against Ado.

The development comes amid a reported marital crisis, with Zainab said to have filed for divorce at an Upper Area Court in Gudu, Abuja, in a suit marked CV/97/26.

She reportedly offered to return the dowry paid during the marriage, and the court has summoned Governor Yusuf to appear on November 17, 2026.

The couple married on July 29, 2006, when Zainab was an aide to her father, and the union produced six children.

The incident has also drawn attention to the political rift between Governor Yusuf and his father-in-law, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, which reportedly began after the governor defected from the New Nigeria Peoples Party to the All Progressives Congress.

Efforts to obtain comments from Senator Kwankwaso or his aides on the development were unsuccessful.