Former Kano State Governor and chief of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has accused Lagos of trying to dominate different areas, notably Kano.
Talking on the convocation ceremony of Skyline College in Kano, Senator Kwankwaso alleged that Lagos is interfering in Kano’s inner issues, together with the collection of the Emir.
“Right now, we will see very clearly that there are efforts from the Lagos axis to colonize this a part of the nation. Lagos wouldn’t enable us to decide on our Emir; as a substitute, they wish to impose their very own Emir on Kano,” he stated.
Kwankwaso described the alleged interference as overreach and warned in opposition to actions undermining the autonomy and cultural heritage of different states.
In the meantime, Kano Instances reviews that Muhammadu Sanusi II, who was deposed because the Emir of Kano by the earlier administration of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been reinstated by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.
The choice adopted the signing of the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Invoice 2024 into legislation by Governor Yusuf.
Nonetheless, the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Kano nullified the state authorities’s actions associated to the repeal of the Emirate Council Legislation and the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II because the sixteenth Emir.
Presiding Choose Justice A.M. Liman, in his ruling directed all events concerned to take care of the established order till the case is resolved.
Because the Kano Emirate disaster stays unresolved in court docket, the state continues to witness an influence tussle, with two emirs—Sanusi and the fifteenth Emir, Aminu Ado Bayero—claiming legitimacy.
