The United Nations has appointed
Muhammadu Sanusi II, emir of Kano, as a member of the new class of Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) advocates.
Antonio Guterres, UN
secretary-general, made the announcement through Farhan Haq, his spokesman, at
a news conference in New York on Thursday.
The SDG advocates are 17
influential public figures committed to “raising awareness, inspiring greater
ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs.”
Sanusi is one of the six new
members of the group, which is co-chaired by President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana
and Erna Solberg, prime minister of Norway.
The other five new members are
Hindou Ibrahim of Chad, Dia Mirza of India, Edward Ndopu of South Africa, Nadia
Murad of Iraq and Marta Vieira da Silva of Brazil.
Haq said the six new members will
take over from the previous six who had been made SDG advocate alumni.
“The Secretary-General looks
forward to working with the group over the coming years to advance the SDGs,’’
the spokesman said.
The emir’s appointment is coming
barely a day after Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, assented to a
bill passed by the Kano house of assembly on the breaking up of the emirate in
the state.
Sanusi reportedly opposed the
re-election of Ganduje, who needed a disputed supplementary election to be
returned to office in the March 2019 governorship election.
After Ganduje lost the poll
heavily in Kano municipal, there were rumours that he would hunt the emir after
the election.
To further strengthen the
rumours, the governor had earlier vowed to give assent to the bill immediately
it was transmitted to him.
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