Former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has
dismissed allegations that he had issued queries to the deposed of Kano,
Muhammad Sanusi II during his tenure as governor of the state.
Kwankwaso, cleared the air on the issue in a BBC Hausa News,
monitored in Kano on Wednesday.
According to him, “l have never issued a query to His
Highness the Emir of Kano “.
The spokesman of Governor Ganduje Salihu Yakasai spoke in
Osogbo, that the deposed Emir Sanusi was queried three times by the
administration of former governor Rabiu Kwankwaso for disrespecting tradition.
Kwankwaso also denied the allegation that Kwankwasiyya
loyalists have contributed in the raging feud between Governor Ganduje and
Sanusi.
He explained that Sanusi’s sin against Ganduje was his
statement that whoever won the 2019 governorship election in Kano state should
be given his mandate.
Kwankwaso, however, described the dethronement of Sanusi as
a sad incident to Kano, Nigeria and the world at large, stressing that,” Sanusi
is a global citizen.
He further, described the recent removal of Muhammadu Sanusi
II as Emir of Kano by the state government as unconstitutional.
According to him, “it is an act of impunity which is also
beyond the powers of the state Governor alone.
He expressed dismay over the way and manner the Emir who he
described as a global figure was treated, insisting that it was a violation of
his fundamental rights as provided by section 35 of the constitution of the
country.
“Honestly speaking what happened on Monday the 9th of March
2020 is a sad thing for the entire people of Kano, Nigerians and the entire
people of the world because the dethroned Emir is a global figure because of
the struggles he lead in his entire life especially when he served as the CBN
governor and this job at the Kano Emirate.”
“On this day, we have seen very annoying things especially
the way impunity and disregard to the constitution and the laws were implored
in dethroning His Highness the Emir of Kano. We see this action as totally
unjust.
“More so, the way we saw the deployment of security agents,
it is clear that this is beyond what a state Governor alone can do. Despite the
intervention of his (Sanusi II) lawyers seeking for him to be allowed to move
to Lagos where he chose, he was forcefully put in a plane and taken to the
remotest place in the country and after some plea, he was taken to another part
of the same Nasarawa state.
“But even as you have chosen to use impunity to dethrone
him, l wish to remind you that this is a democratic dispensation and not
military regime,” he said.
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