The lingering crisis in Kano State
emirate council has deepened as four new emirs, recently appointed by governor,
Abdullahi Ganduje on Thursday shunned emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll at a
Passing out Parade Ceremony of Regular Course Cadets, holding now in the
Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil.
The governor, recently signed
into law, the bill for the creation of four additional Emirates with
first-class emirs in Bichi, Gaya, Karaye and Rano after a high court nullified
the first law in November.
However, the four emirs, who
arrived at the venue of the ceremony earlier than Mr Sanusi, did not pay homage
to him, despite the fact that he had been appointed as Chairman of the Council
of emirs by Mr Ganduje, an appointment he neither accepted nor declined up till
date.
Our reporter, who was at the
venue, observed that when Mr Sanusi arrived at the scene, he did not exchange
pleasantries with the other four emirs.
It was learnt that five seats
were reserved for the five emirs, but after the emirs of Bichi, Gaya, Karaye
and Rano took to their seats, the one arranged for Mr Sanusi was occupied by
the emir of Kuje.
When Mr Sanusi arrived at the
venue, he proceeded to another stand where the officials of the ceremony
provided another seat for him.
Our reporter also gathered that
as Mr Sanusi sat, no one among the four new emirs, including that of Bichi,
Aminu Ado Bayero, who is his blood relation came to pay homage to him.
It was also gathered that one of
the palace guards of the Bichi emir, said the four emirs would not go and greet
Mr Sanusi because he too, did not greet them when he arrived.
“Forget him. We will not greet
him. He is not worth our greetings. He should have greet the four emirs who he
met here. How would they go and greet him? no,” said the palace guard.
Also, another palace guard of
emir Sanusi told our reporter that “we don’t care if they fail to come and pay
homage to our Emir. We will not take that seriously. Since our Emir has sat on
his seat, we have no worry whether they salute him or not,” he said.
Recall that crisis between Messrs
Sanusi and Ganduje broke out immediately after the later was declared the
winner of the controversial governorship rerun election in March, accusing the
monarch of taking sides with his major challenger, Abba Yusuf.
The situation prompted the
governor to create the four additional first-class Emirates, allegedly to
whittle down the power of Mr Sanusi.
This is the first time the five
emirs meet at a function since their re-appointment in early December.
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