Jonathan Nwokpor
Aminu Ado Bayero was never an emir of Kano, according to Sanusi Bature, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State.
According to Bature, Bayero was named Emir of the eight Kano City Metropolitan local governments by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Speaking on Arise Television, Bature claimed that because of the emirate’s bastardization, Ganduje appointed Bayero as the Emir of the metropolitan Kano metropolis.
Politics were introduced by Ganduje, according to Bature, into the Kano Emirate, which existed before Nigeria.
He said: “The action of the governor was to protect the integrity of the emirate as an institution. The Emirate of Nigeria pre-dates Nigeria and the country’s constitution, it’s over a thousand years history of people living together under one Emir.
“The previous administration of Ganduje decided to bastardize that history and bring politics into it.
“The politicisation of the Emirate is what the Yusuf promised to restore the lost glory during the campaign.
“This is not the first time an Emir was deposed, Ganduje did it and Sanusi left Kano for peace to rain. Sanusi is now back to Kano after the repealing of the law.
“I want to put it clear that Aminu Ado Bayero was never an Emir of Kano, he was appointed an Emir of eight metropolitan local government of Kano city.
“So, with the revision of the law under one United Kano, the Emirate Aminu served no longer exist. He was an Emir of Kano city Emirate, he was at that status because the main Emirate was bastardized by Ganduje by the 2019 Emirate law.
“He was the 14 Emir of Kano but his jurisdiction was not for the 44 local government of Kano, he’s just only for the eight metropolitan areas which is now abolished.”
Ado Bayero had been removed by Governor Yusuf, who also reinstated Muhammad Sanusi as the Emir of Kano.
In spite of the governor’s intervention, Ado Bayero has refused to leave his palace in Nassarawa.
Since then, Bayero has filed a legal challenge to the state government’s conduct.
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