The government of Kano State has said it deems Thursday, 20 June judgement by a Federal High Court regarding the emirate royal seat in its favour—an attestation of its decision to reinstate Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir.
Consequently, asking the state’s Commissioner of Police to remove Aminu Ado Bayero, the 15th Emir of Kano from the Nasarawa mini palace.
Notably, the court’s ruling yesterday nullified the Kano Emirate Council (Amendment No. 2) Law, 2024, that scrapped four of the five emirate councils of the state last month and removed all the five emirs, including Aminu Ado-Bayero.
Hon. Justice Abdullahi Liman delivered a judgement that the appointment of Sanusi as Kano emir was null and void because the government failed to obey the court order restraining it from taking further action on the new emirate council law describing Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s speech during the presentation of the reappointment letter to Sanusi as a road to anarchy.
The judge posited that the government was heading to chaos if a court order could not be respected despite evidence of service. He declared all the actions taken by the governor after the court order, including the signing of the new emirate law and the subsequent appointment of Sanusi as emir imprudent ordering all parties to maintain the status quo.
However, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Dederi, in a press conference, reinterpreted the court ruling as in their favour that Sanusi remains the emir.
Dederi said the government has concluded arrangements for the general reconstruction and renovation of the property, including the demolition and reconstruction of the dilapidated wall fence of the Nasarawa palace with immediate effect.
“Following this court’s ruling, Kano State Government has directed the State Commissioner of Police to remove the deposed emir of the 8 metropolitan local governments from the government property where he is trespassing as the government has already concluded arrangements for the general reconstruction and renovation of the property including the demolishing and reconstruction of the dilapidated wall fence with immediate effect.
“By the ruling of the court, it has unequivocally reaffirmed the validity of the law passed by Kano State House of Assembly and assented to by His Excellency the Executive Governor of Kano State.
