Muhammed Sanusi, former emir of Kano, says he has no plan to
run for any political office in the country.
As the 2023 general election approaches, there have been
speculations about the candidates that will emerge ahead of the exercise.
In an interview on Arise TV on Friday, Sanusi said he has no
interest in politics.
The former monarch will be running a fellowship programme at
Oxford University in the United Kingdom in October.
The management committee of the African Studies Centre at
the institution had approved Sanusi’s request for a visiting fellowship
(academic visitor) at the centre.
The ex-monarch said he intends to return to his career as an
academic where he began his life’s journey.
“People have been talking to me about politics when I was in
the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). I have never had an interest in partisan
politics. The nature of my family is that we consider ourselves the leaders of
the poorer people and you know politics can be very divisive,” he said.
“All I can say is that this not an objective for me. I think
there are many ways of being of service to the nation. I started off as an
academic and after just two years, I completed my masters and went into banking
for some reasons. I have been a banker, a regulator, an emir.”
Sanusi said he intends to write three books while at Oxford,
and that one will dwell on ”sharia society and identity”, while another will
focus on the central bank’s response to global financial crisis.
He said a third book will be written on the impact of
certain interpretations of Muslim family law and cultural practices on the
underdevelopment of northern Nigeria.
“And maybe in the process go back to that very first career
that I never completed. I can just be a professor in different universities
abroad and the great thing with the life I have led is that not all
universities have someone with a Ph.D, a bank CEO, a governor of the central
bank and emir,” he said.
“It is a type of CV that will give you to any university in
the world, even if it is Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, anywhere you want because
it is about your entire life experience.
“I can’t see the future, so I will take life as it goes. I
am in no hurry. I see my life as a life of service but I just don’t think that
public service is limited to elected office, and any opportunity I have to
serve I will take as long as it is a role I think I am capable of delivering.
But I have no immediate plans to go into politics now.”
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