Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, the new Emir of Kano.
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has announced the re-appointment of Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano.
He made the announcement after signing the new Emirate Council Law at Government House, Kano, today.
The governor signed the law at exactly 5:10pm alongside his deputy, the Speaker of the State Assembly and other principal officers in his administration.
Former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had dethroned Sanusi in 2020, after a personal rift.
Before dethroning Sanusi, he had split Kano emirate into five. – Kano, Bichi, Rano, Gaya and Karaye.
But the Kano House of Assembly repealed the law, on Thursday.
The new law states that all offices created under the repealed law have been dissolved, and district heads appointed or elevated under the law are to revert to their former positions.
The Commissioner for Local Government shall oversee all transitional arrangements, including how to deal with the assets and liabilities of the abolished Emirates and the new structures created under the repealed Principal Law dated 5th December, 2019.
Similarly, all the affected Emirs of the five Emirates have been directed to handover properties in their possessions to the Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Meanwhile, Opposition members in the Kano State House of Assembly led by Minority Whip, Ayuba Labaran (Kabo-APC) have opposed the move by the state assembly to sack the five Kano emirs and therefore Walked-Out of the House after the legislative body ousts the five Kano emirs.
It was gathered that Labaran, in a protest over the Assembly move, staged a walk-out from the chamber in Kano on Thursday.
The lawmaker who later spoke with journalists claimed that the move was for “selfish interest.”
The Minority Whip added that the previous administration created the Emirates to foster unity and development.
The Kano State House of Assembly had earlier repealed the Kano Emirates Council Law 2019 which established Bichi, Gaya, Karaye and Rano Emirates from the then Kano Emirate.
The lawmakers repealed the Emirates Law at a special plenary presided over by the Speaker, Jibril Falgore.
Falgore invoked Order seven Rule 3 (A) of the House and directed the Clerk of the House, Alhaji Bashir Diso, to carry out the third reading of the bill to repeal the Law.
The Deputy Speaker, Muhammad Butu-Butu, in a contribution, explained that repealing the law would revive the lost glory of Kano.
He said that the division of Kano Emirate into five Emirates damaged the capacity and dignity of the Emirate and the state.
The Majority Leader, Lawan Hussaini, added that the Emirate Council was a custodian of culture of the Kano people which was distorted by the creation of the additional Emirates.
He said that when the law is amended, all the five Emirate Councils would be abolished while the Commissioner for Local Government would oversee the activities of the dissolved Emirate.
He said that repealing the law is timely and the decision should be communicated to the state Governor, Abba Yusuf, for assent.
