The high court
sitting in Kano on Wednesday has declared the appointment and the installation
of four new emirs by the Kano State government as null and void.
It ordered a return to
status quo pending the hearing of the suit against the appointment of the emirs
file by one Rabiu Salihu Garwzo.
The emirs were crowned
by the Governor Umaru Ganduje at the weekend following the balkanisation of the
centuries-old emirate by the Kano state government that followed an unusually
fast passage of a bill by the Kano State House of Assembly.
Ganduje was accused of carrying
out a personal battle against the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II in
order to whittle down his influence in one of Nigeria’s oldest traditional
institutions.
But the governor
defended his move as he insisted that the future of the state was taken into
consideration before Kano Emirate was divided into five smaller units.
“For easier local
administration as Kano state moves in a new direction to deliver
community-based growth, we have decided to create 4 new Emirates for our great
state,” Ganduje said on May 10.
Governor Ganduje signed
the Kano State Emirs Appointment and Deposition Amendment 2019 into last
Thursday and the emirs were given their letter of appointment on Friday.
A court order barring
the governor from appointing and installing new emirs was issued by Justice
Nasiru Saminu on Friday. But the state government claimed the order came
after the persons appointed as emirs had accepted their appointments.
The governor is also
facing another suit brought against him and state government by four kingmakers
– Madakin Kano, District head of Dawakintofa, Yusuf Nabahani; Makaman Kano,
District head of Wudil, Abdullahi Sarki-Ibrahim; Sarkin Dawaki Mai Tuta,
District head of Gabasawa, Bello Abubakar and Sarkin Ban Kano, District head of
Dambatta, Mukhtar Adnan.
The Kano House of
Assembly, the Attorney General of Kano State and the new emir – Tafida
Abubakar-Ila, Ibrahim Abdulkadir, Ibrahim Abubakar ll and Aminu Ado-Bayero –
were also named as defendants in the suit.
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