Afrigather KANO, Nigeria – Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has signed into legislation a invoice nullifying the 5 Emirates council created by his predecessor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and reinstated Sanusi Lamido Sanusi because the Emir of Kano.
The legislation, handed by the Kano State Home of Meeting on Thursday, Might 23, 2024, offers the 5 Emirs 48 hours to vacate their workplaces.
The newly enacted Kano State Emirate Council Legislation 2024 technically dethrones Aminu Ado Bayero as Emir of Kano and formally recognises former Central Financial institution of Nigeria governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, because the rightful Emir.
Sanusi’s portrait now adorns the large wall of the Coronation Corridor of Authorities Home in Kano, signaling his return, whereas Aminu Bayero’s portrait has been eliminated.
The modification to the Kano State Emirates Council Legislation 2024 (1441 A.H) was handed after the invoice scaled its third studying on Thursday.
In line with the legislation, “All conventional workplace holders and title holders elevated or appointed to an workplace created underneath the repealed Principal legislation, dated fifth December 2019 shall revert to their place the place such positions beforehand existed underneath acknowledged customized and traditions previous to the enactment of the repealed Principal Legislation dated fifth December 2019.”
Moreover, the legislation states, “The Commissioner answerable for Native Authorities shall oversee all transitional preparations together with how greatest to cope with property and liabilities of the abolished emirates and new construction created underneath the repealed Principal Legislation dated fifth December 2019.”
Governor Yusuf is predicted to make formal bulletins following his assent to the legislation on Thursday.
In a associated improvement, Aminu Bayero reportedly fled the palace and Kano to Ijebu on Wednesday, Might 22, and is at the moment in Ilorin.
Sanusi, who turned Emir throughout the last time period of former Governor Kwankwaso, was dethroned by outgoing Governor Ganduje and banished to Loko, a distant group in Nasarawa State, on March 9, 2020.
His administration confronted an investigation into the bills of the Kano emirate.
The Ganduje administration had beforehand added 4 new emirates, Bichi, Karaye, Rano, and Gaya, making a complete of 5 First Class Emirs together with Kano.
Nevertheless, the current state Meeting on Thursday “abolished” all the brand new emirates created by the previous governor.
Governor Abba Yusuf’s choice marks a big shift within the conventional management construction of Kano State, aiming to revive the emirate system to its earlier standing earlier than the 2019 legislation was enacted.
