Jonathan Nwokpor
The reappointment of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano in accordance with the new statutes has been authorized by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.
Former emirs now have 48 hours to leave their palaces and turn over Emirate Council properties to the Commissioner of Local Government, who also acts as the State Deputy Governor. This directive comes from the governor.
Kano State’s governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has signed the Kano Emirates Bill 2024 into law, overturning the 2019 Emirate Councils Law, which had changed the state’s more than a millennium-old history.
The governor proclaimed that the 2019 law has been repealed and is now history by signing the bill.
Deputy Governor Aminu Abdussalam, Secretary to the State Government Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, Speaker of the State Assembly Ismaila Falgore, and others.
The State Assembly has carried out one of its constitutional duties by putting the bill into effect.
The five deposed kingmakers have not only been restored to their previous seats by the New Kano Emirate Councils Law, but they also have the authority to meet again in Kano and reinstall Muhammadu Sanusi, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria as the only Emir of Kano.
The law gave the State Government the authority to designate Sanusi as the Emir of Kano once more by stating that “the Governor shall take all necessary measures to restore the status of the Kano Emirate System to its positions prior to the enactment of the repealed Principal Law dated December 5, 2019.”
The law added that “the traditional office holders and title holders elevated or appointed to office created under the repealed Principal Law, dated December 5, 2019, shall revert to their position where such positions previously existed under recognized custom and traditions prior to the enactment of the repealed Principal Law dated December 5, 2019”.
By virtue of this provision, the five deposed kingmakers are appointed again and given the authority to select the next Emir, who will now have the support of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.
It further stated that all transitional measures, including handling the assets and liabilities of the disbanded emirates and the new structure established by the repealed Principal Law of December 5, 2019, would be overseen by the commissioner in charge of local government.
To prevent Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf from reinstalling Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II until the outcome of a substantive litigation filed against the restoration, a Federal High Court located in Kano has given an ex-parte injunction.
Additionally, the order protested the dissolution of the four emirates of Bichi, Gaya, Karaye, and Rano.
ZINGTIE previously revealed that the reinstatement resulted from a law that the State House of Assembly approved earlier Thursday.
Nonetheless, the court ordered all concerned parties to preserve the status quo ante until the outcome of the lawsuit that Sarkin Dawaki Babba and Aminu Babba-Dan’Agundi filed on Thursday.
Permission to issue and serve the concurrent originating motion and any other court processes on the 6th Defendant (IGP) in FCT Abuja and outside the Honourable Court’s jurisdiction was granted by Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court to the Plaintiff/Applicant.
The Kano State lawmakers, the Kano State government, the Speaker of the State Assembly, the Kano State commissioner of police, the Inspector General of Police, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Department of State Services.
Justice Liman ordered that “in view of the Constitutional and Jurisdictional Issues apparent on the face of the application, parties shall address the Court on same at the hearing of the Fundamental Rights application which is fixed for the 3rd of June, 2024.
“That in order to maintain the peace and security of the state, an Interim Injunction of this Honourable Court is granted restraining the Respondents from enforcing, executing, implementing and operationalizing the Kano State Emirate Law Council (Repeal) Law.
“That parties are hereby ordered to maintain status quo ante the passage and assent of the bill pending the hearing of the Fundamental Rights application.”
The judge postponed the case until June 3, 2024.
Governor Abba Yusuf formally announced Emir Sanusi’s reappointment on Thursday.
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