Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, governor
of Kano state, has relaunched moves to remove Muhammad Sanusi II as the emir of
Kano.
On Monday, the Kano State Public
Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission reopened investigation into the
expenditure of the state emirate council under Sanusi II.
Also at Monday’s plenary of the
house of assembly, Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, the speaker, read a letter from one
Ibrahim Salisu and others, seeking the creation of new Kano emirates in Karaye,
Bichi, Rano and Gaya.
“The governor is determined to
remove the emir, and if this does not succeed, he will break the emirate into
pieces to whittle down Sanusi’s power,” an official of the state government,
who asked not to be named, told TheCable on Monday evening.
Ironically, Ganjude’s move to
break the emirate into smaller units will mirror what Abiola Ajimobi, the
outgoing governor of Oyo state, did to the olubadan of Ibadan, Saliu Adetunji,
whose authority Ajimobi sought to decimate by approving 21 beaded kings for
Ibadan.
Ganjude and Ajimobi are in-laws.
FOREIGN TRIPS
Sanusi II’s problem with Ganduje
is usually traced to his critical comments in 2017 on the award of contracts to
Chinese companies by the state government and on the governor’s foreign trips.
Shortly after the comment, the
Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission alleged the
misappropriation of N6billion by the Kano emirate council “without the approval
of the state government”.
The probe was halted then but it
has now been revived.
Sanusi II is believed to have
opposed the re-election of Ganjude, who needed a disputed supplementary
election to be returned to office in the March 2019 governorship election.
In a letter dated May 2, 2019, the state anti-graft commission invited one Isa Bayero to
appear before it to shed more light on the payment vouchers from 2013 to 2017
in his name.
EMIRATE’S FUNDS
Other officers in the emirate
council to be quizzed, according to TheCable sources, include Mohammad Sani
Kwaru, the accountant, Mannir Sanusi, the chief of staff, Danburan Mujittafa
and Falakin Kano.
The letter said the commission
was inviting the staff over alleged violation of section 26 of its enabling law
in the management of the emirate’s funds.
The letter also stated that the
invitation was sequel to the power conferred to it under “section 9 and 15 of
Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission Law 2008 (as
amended).”
Sanusi II was appointed the 14th
emir in 2014 after his suspension from office as governor of the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) by former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Ganduje was the deputy governor
to Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso when Sanusi II was appointed, but the former governor
is no longer on good terms with his successor.
Kwankwaso supported his
son-in-law, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, to challenge Ganduje, but the incumbent was
returned with a score of 1,033,695 — a narrow difference of 8,982 votes.
Ganjude lost the Kano municipal
heavily, leading to rumours that he would come after the emir after the
election.
Sanusi II is the grandson of
Muhammadu Sanusi I, the 11th emir of Kano who was deposed in 1963 after a
disagreement with Ahmadu Bello, the sardauna of Sokoto and premier of northern
region at the time.
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