The All Progressives Congress on Monday accused the Peoples Democratic Party of inciting the violence that followed Sunday’s announcement of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano.
The party urged the Kano State Attorney-General to prosecute all PDP officials involved in the acts to destabilize the state.
APC in a statement issued in Lagos by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the statement issued by PDP’s publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, congratulating one of the contenders long before the state government announced the new Emir was “premeditated and calibrated to incite violence.”
The party wondered why a ruling party, which has access to Kano or any state government, would rush to the media to congratulate a contender who had not been selected, without even contacting the selecting authority to ensure the veracity of whatever news it may have heard.
”What is so urgent about congratulating the new Emir that could not have waited for a few hours for the appropriate authority to make an official announcement?” it queried.
The party continued: “When the announcement was eventually made and the contender who had already been congratulated lost out, it is only natural that his supporters would feel shortchanged.
”It is therefore obvious that the PDP, through its National Publicity Secretary went out of their way to stoke the fire of violence in Kano.
”Since we live in a country which is being governed by the rule of law, the best option open to the Kano State government is for the State Attorney-General to immediately initiate criminal proceedings against PDP and its officials for incitement. Whatever explanations they have for their irresponsible and premeditated actions they should reserve for their defence in court.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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THE CLAIMS SURROUNDING SANUSI AS EMIR: IGNORANCE UNLIMITED
ReplyDeleteI have been wondering: what's all the fuss about the ex-governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS), becoming an Emir of Kano? In fact, ignorant APC chieftains and members have been gloating over Sanusi's ascendancy to the Emirship throne of his grandfather. Someone even said that it's like scoring a penalty kick against the sitting President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I'm taken aback; I do not understand. A goal? How? I cannot know. How is the president disadvantaged by Sanusi's ascendancy as a mere Emir, an Emir without immunity, without constitutionally defined powers, an Emir who has no power over me if I find myself in Kano any day. What power has Emir Sanusi got to square up or be compared with the president of Nigeria?
To think that Emir SLS is capable of making the president to lose his sleep is the height of ignorance. The Bible must have been referring to people who weirdly think this way when it said that "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6 KJV). It takes the most ignorant, ignoble and dumbest man on earth to think that way.
What are the powers of Emir Sanusi? During and after the colonial period, the emirate powers were steadily reduced. The constitutional powers of the emir were further whittled down by the military regimes. The Native Authority Police and Prisons Department under them was abolished; the emir's judicial council was supplanted by another body, and successive local government reforms (in 1968, 1972, and 1976) reduced the powers of the emir, making him legally inferior to the council chairman. Under the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, an Emir has no recognized powers.
In a way, Emir SLS, who functions at the pleasure of his governor, is constitutionally and legally under his council chairman, who is the chief security officer in the Local Government Area. Emir Sanusi, like other northern Nigeria emirs, has no control over mechanisms of the state such as the police, taxation or criminal justice.
Emir Sanusi only wields considerable power as the top Islamic figure in Kano, which power enables him to choose the imams of the main mosques in Kano. As Emir, he is expected to step in at moments of crisis to mediate inter-religious violence or land disputes before they spiral out of control. He is also expected to play an important role in warding off religious fundamentalism, a role we all know that the Sudan-trained and radicalized Sanusi is most unlikely to play.
On the whole and in summary, Emir Sanusi's exercise of power or authority is strictly a function of how much the people choose to respect him; it's non-statutory. And as an Emir, he poses no threat to the president or to his party.
I rained yesterday and there were flash floods...
ReplyDeleteHear Mr lai mohamed- 'the PDP is to blame. They ought to have known that it woul rain after all this is rainy season'
as far as de talking is paining u go hog transformer naw,stupid idiot fool if na ur father name b pdp we go knw.
ReplyDeleteAPC, when will you be reasonable for a moment?
ReplyDeleteAPC your house is stinking you are helping someone else to clean his haba! Get ur house in order pls
ReplyDeleteI don't just get it as well. what is all these stupid noise about one village emir, mscheeeeew jobless people.
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