A Kano State high court Wednesday declared the appointment and
the installation of four new emirs by the Kano State government as
null and void.
The emirs were installed by the Governor Umaru Ganduje at the
weekend following the balkanisation of the century-old emirate by
the Kano state government.
Ganduje has been accused of carrying out a personal vendetta
against the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II in order to whittle
down his influence in one of Nigeria’s oldest traditional
institutions.
But the governor insisted the future of the state was taken into
consideration before Kano Emirate was divided into five smaller
units.
“For easier local administration as Kano state moves in a new
direction to deliver community-based growth, we have decided to
create 4 new Emirates for our great state,” Ganduje said on May
10.
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