The Kano state government says it
will continue to recognise the emirs sacked by a Kano state high court on
Thursday.
Usman Na’Abba, a judge, had
ordered the sack of Aminu Ado Bayero (Bichi emirate), Ibrahim Gaya (emir of
Gaya), Tafida Ila (emir of Rano), and Ibrahim Abukakar (emir of Karaye).
The judge held that the creation
of four new emirates did not follow due process. He said the state house of
assembly violated the provision of section 101 of the 1999 constitution which
it to make laws.
Reacting to the court ruling,
Muhammad Garba, a spokesman of the Kano government, said the Ganduje
administration will continue treating those sacked as first-class monarchs.
Garba said the government is
still studying the ruling with a view to taking immediate appropriate action.
He said it was unfortunate that
despite the powers conferred on the state assembly, the court ruled otherwise.
Garba added that the
government will not fold its arms and
concede its constitutional power in the
interest of the well-being of the people and general development of the state.
He also advised residents to be
calm, and “await further action”.
In May, the governor created four
additional emirates in Kano — Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya — in a bid to
whittle down the influence of Muhammad Sanusi II, emir of Kano, though he said
the move was for administrative convenience.
He said the challenges of the
Kano emirate are “too weighty” and that the new ones will bring development
closer to citizens.
The creation of the new emirates
was said to have been targeted at Sanusi who reportedly worked against his
reelection.
To challenge the action, four
Kano kingmakers filed a suit against Ganduje.
The kingmakers who took the legal
action are Madakin Kano, district head of Dawakintofa; Yusuf Nabahani, district
head of Wudil; Abdullahi Sarki-Ibrahim, district head of Gabasawa; and Bello
Abubakar, district head of Dambatta, Mukhtar Adnan.
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