Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has presented a letter of appointment to the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Earlier, Governor Yusuf stated the reason why the Kano State government reinstated Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano.
The governor said Sanusi was victimized in 2019. He added that the emirate council law 2019 by the immediate past governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, balkanised the old Kano Emirate.
Yusuf called on the reinstated Emir to use his leadership to unite the emirate and the state as a whole.
The 16th Emir of Kano, Sanusi II, had initially ruled as the 14th Emir.
Dethroned, banished
Recall that in 2020, the Kano House of Assembly passed a bill to split the Kano Emirate Council into five emirates. They were mainly under Sanusi’s control. So the division lowered his influence.
He had had a fallout with the former governor. Ganduje is now National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Sanusi was dethroned and banished on March 9, 2020. The former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor was then flown to Lagos and quartered by one of his friends, the late Herbert Wigwe of Access Bank.
Then Sanusi was replaced by the recently deposed 15th Emir – Aminu Ado Bayero.
16th Emir
However, yesterday, Governor Yusuf approved the reappointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II. This was after assenting the Kano State Emirates Council (Amendment number 2) Bill, 2024 passed by the House of Assembly.
The new law repealed Ganduje’s Kano Emirate Council Law 2019, Kano State Emir’s Appointment and Deposition Amendment Law 2019, and Kano State Emirate Council Amendment Law 2023.
Not that it was the latter that created five emirates in Kano, and paved the way for the deposition of Sanusi.
Today, Sanusi was given the letter of reinstatement, and then turbaned the 16th Emir of Kano.
The coronation of the former CBN governor took place at the Kano state government house.
Speaking at the ceremony, Governor Yusuf said: “By the powers conferred on me by the Kano Emirate Council Law of 1984 and 2024, and supported by the recommendation of the kingmakers, I have the singular pleasure of confirming the reappointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano and the head of the Kano Emirate Council.”
Also, he said Sanusi’s reappointment was “based on his competence, credibility, and popularity.”
Furthermore, the governor urged the new Kano Emir “to be guided by the principles of Islamic teachings and to use his position to unite the emirate, fostering harmony among the Islamic sects in the state.”
High court…
Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Kano has granted an order stopping the Kano State Government from enforcing the Kano State Emirate Council Repeal Law.
Justice Mohammed Liman granted the order in an application by Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the Kano Emirate.
The court papers regarding the case have since gone viral.
The judge, Mohammed Liman, asked the government to “suspend” and “not give effect to the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Law, 2024, as they affect all offices and institutions of the Emirate Council created pursuant to the provisions of the Kano State Emirate Council Law, 2019″.