Governor Abba Yusuf has officially presented a letter of appointment to Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano.
The former CBN governor was reinstated yesterday after a new law – Kano State Emirates Councils (Repeal) Bill 2024 – signed by the Kano State House of Assembly and the governor.
He was dethroned on March 9, 2020 by former governor Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, following a disagreement between the duo.
The mini-durbar ceremony took place at the Africa House of the Kano State Government House on Friday (today).
The presentation of the letter of appointment is coming after a Federal High Court sitting in Kano had issued an injunction stopping the action.
Speaking while presenting the letter, Yusuf said: “Sunusi is a victim of the immediate past administration, who is now being restored to his rightful position to lead the people.”
D’Gallery gathered that the 14th Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II is back on the throne after four years hiatus following the signing of the Kano State Emirates Councils (Repeal) Bill 2024 by Governor Yusuf.
Meanwhile, the governor said that a
judge, Justice Mohammed Liman, of Federal High Court, Kano, who tried to stop Sanusi’s reinstatement as emir is in America.
He had issued an order on Thursday restraining the state government from enforcing the Kano State Emirate Council Repeal Law.
The governor disclosed that he had signed the proposed law at exactly 5:14 pm, after which the orders were issued.
“It means they had already been armed with the motion ex-parte even before I gave assent to the bill passed by the State House of Assembly or at what time had they approached the court to obtain the order?,” he asked.
Justice Mohammed Liman gave the order following an application by a kingmaker, Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi.
Kano State Government, Kano Assembly, the Speaker, the Attorney-General, the Commissioner of Police, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the State Security Service (SSS) are respondents.
“The judge is in America. So, hjow can he sit in America and give order in Nigeria to stop a legitimate process?, he queried.
Yusuf said Sanusi’s reinstatement was delayed because due process was being followed.
“The Assembly members did their legislative duty and passed the bill into law. We met with law enforcement agencies and the kingmakers before I signed the law,” he said.
He added that the law had come to stay and no one could stop it.
The new law says: “All traditional office holders and title holders elevated or appointed to an office created under the repealed Principal law, dated 5th December 2019, shall revert to their positions where such positions previously existed under recognised custom and traditions prior to the enactment of the repealed Principal Law dated 5th December 2019.”
“It is not a new stool, neither Sanusi is a new emir. The king has only returned home to his throne after it was balkanised. It has all along been his throne,” Yusuf said.
D’Gallery gathered that Kano is peaceful and calm as the governor had appealed to the people to go about their businesses without fear.
