The Kano Emirates legal battle has started at the Federal High Court complex on Court Road in Kano. The building is tightly guarded by security officers.
According to reports, the hearing on the restraining order against Muhammadu Sanusi II’s reinstatement as the 16th Emir by the Kano government was postponed to today due to the statewide strike over the increased minimum wage last Thursday.
A Federal High Court in Kano had already granted an order prohibiting the Kano State Government from implementing the Kano State Emirate Council Repeal Law.
Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the Kano Emirate, applied for the decree, and Justice Mohammed Liman granted it.
In order to prevent a breakdown in law and order and to restrict movement, members of the Department of State Services (DSS) and officers of the Nigeria Police Force positioned their cars strategically around the court during the hearing that was resumed on Thursday.
Motorbikes, cars, and other vehicles are presently being rerouted from Court Road to Zoo Road and the town’s Gyadi-Gyadi neighborhood until the lawsuit is being heard.
Remember that the state’s problem erupted two weeks ago when Abba Yusuf, the governor of Kano State, removed Ado Bayero from his position as the Emir of Kano along with four other first-class Emirs from Rano, Bichi, Karaye, and Gaya.
In 2020, Lamido Sanusi was deposed and banished by Abdullahi Ganduje, the former governor of Kano state, but he was reinstated as the Emir after a statute was repealed.
In 2020, the government led by Abdullahi Ganduje ousted Sanusi, the 14th Emir of Kano, for suspected insubordination, and Bayero was appointed as his replacement.
On Ganduje’s orders, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was likewise banished to the rural hamlet of Awe in Nasarawa State.
But the state House of Assembly, which is ruled by the New Nigeria Peoples Party, approved the Kano State Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024, which took the place of the Kano State Emirates Council Law, 2019, in an attempt to bring Sanusi back.
The five emirate councils in the state—Bichi, Karaye, Gaya, and Rano—including Ganduje’s Kano—were all abolished under the law.
