A Minister of Education who permits, excuses or supervises conduct that appears to defy a subsisting court order has crossed from policy failure into constitutional recklessness. The Pluck Global land-swap scandal is no longer merely about FGC Kano land. It is now about whether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government will tolerate a minister whose actions lend credence to the damaging allegation that this administration has no respect for the judiciary.
*The record is damning.*
On 8 April 2026, the High Court of Kano State in Suit No. K/323/2026, granted an
Interim Injunction restraining the Honourable Minister of Education and other Defendants from “constructing, building, surveying or in any way dealing with” the subject FGCK land. Yet Pluck agents were caught on video marking out the land on Wednesday May 20, 2026, prompting contempt proceedings at the High
Court of Justice, Kano State. Today Friday, May 22, 2026 The DPO and Court Registrar visited FGC Kano to remind the Principal that the order remains subsisting and enforceable. The court order specifically describes the continuation of site activity as contempt and a direct assault on judicial authority.
That alone is enough reason for the Minister to go.
A public officer swears to act in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and
to do right to all persons according to law, without fear or favour. The Code of
Conduct also prohibits a public officer from abusing office through arbitrary acts
known to be unlawful or contrary to government policy. Contempt of court is
willful disobedience or disregard of a court order. A minister who presides over
actions that appear to violate a court order has no moral authority to remain in
office. The President does not need to wait until public confidence is completely
destroyed. Constitutionally and politically, contemptuous conduct is sufficient
ground to remove any public officer from government.
Alausa is also not a true representative of President Tinubu’s policy instincts. As
Lagos Governor, Tinubu expanded public capacity. He challenged federal
orthodoxy, created additional local councils, pushed independent power
initiatives, and built institutions because he believed public assets should grow in service of the people.
Alausa’s approach is the opposite: shrink the school,
surrender land, monetize public assets, and call liquidation reform.
*That is not Tinubuism. That is asset-stripping.*
The Minister’s own words are worse. In the May 7 meeting with FGCKOSA and
USOSA Executives, he told alumni: “*You have zero stake,*” and “*You can’t fight Government.*” When challenged on whether the land-for-infrastructure exchange was a sale, he finally admitted: “*Yes, it’s a sale of course!*” The recordings and minutes of that meeting are available.
Those words reveal the problem: arrogance, contempt for stakeholders, contempt for public trust, and now, allegedly, contempt for court.
FGC Kano land was not “waste land.” It was reserved for expansion, sports,
agriculture, staff housing, security, technical development, and future growth. The alumni rightly states that world-class institutions expand their land banks; they do not sell them off.
There is simply no profit in keeping this Minister. There is no profit in keeping the
Pluck land-swap. There is only political damage, legal exposure, reputational
injury, and the permanent loss of educational assets. If President Tinubu allows
this to continue, critics who say his government has weakened the judiciary will point to FGC Kano and ask: if a court order cannot stop a minister’s project, what exactly is left of the rule of law?
Alausa must go. The Pluck arrangement must be terminated. Every official,
contractor, consultant, or intermediary involved in violating the court order must be investigated.
Court orders are not suggestions. Public land is not private spoil. And a Minister of Education who cannot distinguish reform from theft is unfit to supervise the future of Nigeria’s children.